VTTLTFEID^. 



Family VULTURIUiE. 



Head and neck more or less bare, or only clothed with short 

 stubby down ; never any true feathers on crown of head. 



a. Nostrils not perforated. . . . Snhfam. VIJLTVRINM, p. 2. 

 h. Nostrils witliout bonv septum, perforated. 



&ihfam. SARCORHAMPHINJE, p. 20. 



Subfam.I. VULTURIN^ (OLD-WORLD VULTURES). 



Kei) to the Genera. 



a. Nostrils rounded ' 1. Vultub, p. 2. 



b. Nostrils perpendicular, rather oval in shape. 

 a". Tarsus shorter than middle toe*. 



a"'. Fourteen tail-feathers 2. Gyps, p. 4. 



h'". Twelve tail-feathers 3. Pseudogyps, p. 11. 



b". Tarsus longer than middle toe. 



c'". Head bare, with fleshy folds and a neck- 

 lappet 4. Otogyps, p. 13. 



d'". Head covered with down, forming an 



occipital ridge ; no neck -lappet. ... 5. Lophogyps, p. 15. 



c. Nostrils horizontal 6. Neophron, p. 10. 



1. VULTUR. 



Vultur, Briss. Orn. i. p. 4.53 (17uO) V. monaclius. 



^gypius, Sarigmj, Syd. Ois. cVEgijpte, p. 236 (1808) . . V. monachus. 

 Polypteryx, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844) V. monachus. 



Bill of J'ulfur monachus. 



Bniiye. All countries bordering the Mediterranean ; eastwards to 

 India and China. 



* The unwieldy scutellation of the foot in Vultures rendering it almost im- 

 possible to obtain precise measurements, the generic characters have been drawn 

 from the- skeleton 



