. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 16 VULTURID^. neck; sides of face more or less bare, with thiu downy white hair or white down on tlie sides of face and throat; lower neck bare all round; ruff dark brown, not meeting underneath or impending on the breast; general plumage above and below blackish brown, the lower back and rump much paler brown ; median and greater wing- coverts margined more or less with whitish, more conspicuous on the former; quills and tail black, the latter glossed with brown, the secondaries grej'ish brown on the outer webs, whitish on the inner ones, the in
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 16 VULTURID^. neck; sides of face more or less bare, with thiu downy white hair or white down on tlie sides of face and throat; lower neck bare all round; ruff dark brown, not meeting underneath or impending on the breast; general plumage above and below blackish brown, the lower back and rump much paler brown ; median and greater wing- coverts margined more or less with whitish, more conspicuous on the former; quills and tail black, the latter glossed with brown, the secondaries grej'ish brown on the outer webs, whitish on the inner ones, the inner secondaries pure white, those adjoining the back of the same colour as the latter; crop-patch white; abdomen, thighs, and under taU-coverts pure white; under wing-coverts brown, the lower ones white at the tip ; bill blood-red, black at tip, blue at base ; feet flesh-colour; iris umber-brown. Total length 32 inches, cul- men 3-55, wing 26-5, tail 12-2, tarsus 4-9, middle toe 4-4. Toimg. Paler brown, with dark brown feathers everywhere ap- pearing ; the down on the head, crop-patch, white wing-feathers, and abdomen tinged here and there with brownish. Hab. The same as that of the genus. a. Imm. sk. Abyssinia. Frankfort Museum. b. Ad. St. Kurrichaine, S. Afi-ica. M. Ven-eaux. 6. NEOPHRON. ^ Neophron, Savif/ni/,Si/st. Ois. d'Egijiyte, p. 238 (1808) N. percnopterus. Percnopterus, Ra/inesqite, Analyse, p. 69 N. percnopterus. Necrosyrtes, Gloger, Hanclb. Naturg. p. 236 (1842);. N. monachus. Gypiscus, Sundev. Av. Tent. ;110"(1873) '. N. Bill of Neophron percnopterus. Range. Occasionally in Northern Europe. Found in all the coun- tries bordering the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and occurs also in Southern Africa, extending to Persia and the countries fringing the Persian Gulf to the peninsula of India, over the whole of which it is distributed. Key to the Species, a. White; fore part of chest bare. a'. Larger; bill horn-brown; wings reaching to tail percnopter
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