GYPS. 



coverts rufous fawn-colour, with whitish shaft-stripes ; quills and 

 tail black, the latter as well as the secondaries somewhat shaded 

 with brown ; ruff of lanceolate feathers, whitish, with fawn-coloured 

 margins ; crop-patch rufous fawn-colour, as also the rest of the 

 under surface, each feather plainly streaked down the centre with 

 whitish. Total length about 37 inches, culmen 3-.5, wing 27, tail 

 12-5, tarsus (in skin) about 4-3, middle toe about 4-8. 



Hah. Spain and Northern Africa, ranging far into the interior ; 

 (?) N.E. Africa. 



Ohs. The Griffon Vulture of X.E. Africa still requires identifica- 

 tion ; and I have not been able to examine specimens. The bird 

 procured by Major Denham in Central Africa, and still preserved in 

 the Museum, appears to me to belong to the rufous race of Algeria 

 and Spain ; on the other hand Mr. E. C. Taylor teUs me that he never 

 saw the slightest difference between the Gyps of Egypt and the 

 ordinary Griffon of the other countries of S.E. Europe ; but he col- 

 lected no specimens. If Dr. von Heuglm's identification be correct, 

 the bird from N.E. Africa may be the true G. fulvus ; or, again, 

 both races may occur there, the one coming from the north, the 

 other from the west. On this subject see Von Heuglin's recent re- 

 marks (Nachtr. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 1). 



Ad. sk. Southern Spain. K. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 



a, 



b. Ad. St. Europe. Pui-chased 



c. 



Ad. St. Central Africa. Major Denham [P.]. 



d. Sternum. Piu'chased. 



Subsp. /3. Gyps ftilvescens. 



Gyps fulvus, Jerclon, B. Lid. i. p. 8 (1862). 



Gjqjs ftdvescens, Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 356; ul. Rough Notes, i. p. 1-5 



(1869); Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 158; Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 235; 



Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 149. 



Adult. Above rufous ashy, the iuterscapulary region rather darker 

 and browner, the wing-coverts paler and more decidedly washed 

 with ash-colour ; lower back and rump brown, with distinct central 

 streaks of fulvous white, the upper tail-coverts more clearly rufes- 

 cent ; quills brownish black, the primaries distinctly shaded with 

 ashy grey, the secondaries externally washed and tipped with rufous 

 ashy ; tail black, the feathers shaded with brown on their margins ; 

 head rather thickly clothed with yellowish-white down, a little more 

 scanty on the neck, round the hinder part of which is a thick ruff 

 of white feathers ; crop-patch dark brown ; rest of under surface 

 fulvous brown, with distinct whitish central stripes, the under wing- 

 coverts somewhat darker. Total length about 40 inches, culmen 3-7, 

 wing 30, tail 12-5, tarsus 5-2. 



Young. Ruff composed of lanceolate feathers, brown, mesially 

 streaked with whitish ; plumage paler than in the adults, all the 

 feathers plainly streaked with fulvous, the under surface verj^ di- 

 stinctly striped. 



Hab. Sindh, N.W. Provinces, and Himalayas in India. 



