. Birds. Birds. GYPS. 323 1195. Gyps tenuirostris. The Eimalayan Long-UUed Vulture. Vultur tenuiceps, Hodgson in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844), descr, nulla. Gyps tenuirostris, SodgsonMS., Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 6 (1844), descr nulla; Hwme, 8. F. vii, p. 326 (1878); id. Cat. no. 4 ter: ScuUy, /S. J", viii, p. 219. ^ ^> Gyps indicua, apud Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 9, partim ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 232; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 10, pt.; Blyth ^' Walden, Birds 64; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 1; Hume, Cat. no. 4; id. S. F. xi, p. 2; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 169; id. in Hume's N, & K 2nd ed.
. Birds. Birds. GYPS. 323 1195. Gyps tenuirostris. The Eimalayan Long-UUed Vulture. Vultur tenuiceps, Hodgson in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844), descr, nulla. Gyps tenuirostris, SodgsonMS., Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 6 (1844), descr nulla; Hwme, 8. F. vii, p. 326 (1878); id. Cat. no. 4 ter: ScuUy, /S. J", viii, p. 219. ^ ^> Gyps indicua, apud Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 9, partim ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 232; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 10, pt.; Blyth ^' Walden, Birds 64; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 1; Hume, Cat. no. 4; id. S. F. xi, p. 2; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 169; id. in Hume's N, & K 2nd ed. iii, p. 202. Sdg4n, Beng.; Gut, Kg. 83.—Head of G. tenmrosiris, J. Very similar to the last, but distinguished by having no feathers at all on the head and scarcely any down on the neck, hy the general coloration of the plumage teing darker, the legs and feet somewhat longer, the bill more slender, the nostril apparently less elongate and broader, and the colours of the soft parts different. Bill brownish dusky horny, the culmen yellowish horny; cere homy black; irides deep brown; skin of head and neck dark muddy; tarsi and toes black; claws dusky or horny black (Hume). Length about 38'5; tail 10*5; wing 24; tarsus 4; middle toe without claw 4"3; bUl from gape 2'85. The Indian Peninsular form, and not the present species, must retain the name indicus, for Sonnerat in his original description of " Le Grand Vautour des Indes " (to which the specific name indicus was applied by Scopoli) wrote that the head is covered with fine down resembling hair (la tite est cowuerte d'wn petit duvet qui ressemhle a du poil). Hume has distinguished the Himalayan Vulture, G. tenuirostris, from that of Eengal, Assam, and Burma, on account of the slender bill and head of the former; but I feel doubtful whether the difference is constant. JDistribution. Throughout the lower Himalayas and near their base as far west as Kashmir, also in Bengal, Assam, and Burma, x2. Please no
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