VULTUEID-aS. 



Venj old. Much paler than the foregoing, of a light brown colour ; 

 breast-feathors and those of the raff fulvescent at their tips, giving 

 a somewhat streaked appearance ; beak much mixed with yellowish, 

 the lower mandible especially*. 



Hub. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. sk. Se-ville, Spain. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. Specimen 



figured iu Dresser's 'Birds of Europe.' 



b. Ad. St. Xanthus. Sh- C. Fellowes [P.]. 

 e. Ad. st. N.E. Afiica, Frankfort Museum. 

 d,e. Ad.st Nepal. B. 11. Hodgson, Esq. 

 /. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, 

 ff. Ad. sk. Ningpo, China. R. Swinhoe, 

 h. Ad. et, Purchased. 



auseum. 

 json, Esq. [P.] 

 fson, Esq. [P.J. 

 3, Esq. [C.]. 



2. GYPS. 

 Gyps, Samgny, Syst. Ois. d' Egyi^te, ^. 231 (1809) 



Type. 

 G. fulvus. 



Bill of Gypi fulvus. 



Range. The whole of Africa, except the forest regions of the west 

 coast ; all the countries bordering the Mediterranean ; E. Europe as 

 high as 59° ; eastwards through Persia to India, and thence into 

 Siam and down the Malayan peninsula. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Height of bill along anterior margin of cere equal 

 to cere itself. 

 a'. Feathers of lower back and rump centred with 

 a pale shaft-stripe. 

 a". Under wing-coverts ashy or tawny rufous . . fulvus, p. 5, 

 b". Under wiug-coverts white. 



a'". Largest ; under surface nearly white, the 



shaft-streaks obsoletely indicated. . . . himalayensis, p. 8. 



work: — Mr. J. H. Gurney, Prof. Newton, Messrs. Blanford, Jesse, Heuglin, Ayres, 

 Jerdon, Swinhoe, Dresser, Cassin, Cones, Andersson, and others, but perhaps more 

 especially to the recent works of Mr. A. O. Hume, where this very important 

 feature of ornithology is treated in the most complete manner possible. 



* This stage, which was erroneously described as the young in Dresser's 

 ' Birds of Europe,' is really the plumage of a yery old bird, as I am informed 

 by Major Irby, who has studied the living birds in their wild state. 



