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NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS. THE WHITE 

 NEOPHRON. 



EGYPTIAN VULTURE. PHARAOH'S CHICKEN. 



Vultur Percnopterus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 249. Adult. 



Vultur fuscus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 248. Young. 



Vultur Percnopterus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 2. Adult, 



Vultur leucocephalus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 2. Adult. 



Vultur fuscus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 5. Young. 



Vultur ginginianus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 16. Adult. 



Catharte alimoche. Cathartes Percnopterus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 8 ; 



III. 6. 

 Egyptian Neophron. Neophron Percnopterus. Selb. lUustr. I. 4. 

 Neophron Percnopterus. Egyptian Neophron. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 79. 



Adult with the plumage white, excepting the primary quills and 

 hasal part of the secondaries, ichich are black. Young dark 

 brown, spotted with brownish-yeUoiv, suhseqiiently of the latter 

 colour. 



Male. — This Vulture, the smallest of the European species, 

 is somewhat larger than the American Cathartes atratus or 

 Black Vulture, which it greatly resembles in form. Its bill 



