. The birds of South Africa. Birds. VULTUEID^ NECROSYETBS 397 Only two species of this genus are usually recognised—the type species from north-east Africa and the South African form described below. 561. f^Necrosyrtes pileatus. Hooded Vulture. Vultur pileatus, Burohell, Travels, ii, p. 195 (1824). Neophron oarunculatus, Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. i, p. 17 (1829). Neophron pileatus, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 236[Natal] ; id. Descript. Cat. Bapt. B. p. 53 (1861) ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 4 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 137 ; id. in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 2 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. VULTUEID^ NECROSYETBS 397 Only two species of this genus are usually recognised—the type species from north-east Africa and the South African form described below. 561. f^Necrosyrtes pileatus. Hooded Vulture. Vultur pileatus, Burohell, Travels, ii, p. 195 (1824). Neophron oarunculatus, Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. i, p. 17 (1829). Neophron pileatus, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 236[Natal] ; id. Descript. Cat. Bapt. B. p. 53 (1861) ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 4 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 137 ; id. in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 2 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 18 (1874) ; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 7, 794, (1875-84); Oates, Matabeleland, p. 297 (1881) [nr. Tati] ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 237 [Mashonaland] ; Plech, Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 392 [Gt. Namaqualand] ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 155 (1896) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 255 [Mashonaland] ; Alexander, ibid. p. 438 [Zambesi VaUey].. Pig. 138.—Neerosyrtes pileatus. x f. Description. Adult.—General colour above, chocolate-brown ; quills and tail black; crown of the head, sides of the face, throat, and fore neck bare ; eyelashes and bristles on the lores black ; hind neck up to the occiput covered with a thick, fluffy down of a whitish colour tinged with brown ; crop patch pale creamy-brown, encircled on its upper and lower margins by conspicuous patches of white down; inner surface of the thighs also covered with white down. Iris dark brown to bluish-black; bill greenish-black, dark horn. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stark, Arthur Cowell, d. 1899; Sclater, William Lutley, 1863-1944; Sclater, William Lutley, 1863-1944. Fauna of South Africa. London, R. H. Porter
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