10 TTTLTUKIDJi. 



coloured tips ; bill deep orange, inclining to greenish horn-colour on 

 edge of upper and on the whole of lower mandible ; cere black ; feet 

 black ; iris nearly black. Total length about 4U inches, culmen 'SS, 

 wing 25-5, tail 11, tarsus about 4*7, middle too 5-3. 



Hab. N.E. Africa generally; S. Africa, jS^atal on the east and 

 Ovampo Land on the west coast. 



a. 2 St. Angollala, Shoa, Oct. 1842 (Harris). Secretary of State for 



India [P.]. 



b. J sk. Angollala, Shoa, Oct. 1842 (Harris). Secretary of State for 



India'rP.]. 



c. d sk. Angollala, Shoa, Oct. 1842 (Harris). Hon. E. I. Co. [P.]. 



5. Gyps indicus. 



Le Grand Vautom- des ludes, Sonn. Voi/. Ind. Or. ii. p. 183, pi. lOo 



(1782). 

 Vultm- iudiciis. Scop. Del. Faun.ct Flor. In.-oibr. ii. p. 85 (1786, exSonn.). 

 Indian ^'ulture, Lath. Gen. Si/ii. Suppl. p. (3 (1787). 

 Vultur teniiiceps, Hodf/s. in J. E. Graifs Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). 

 Gyps tenuirostris, G. It. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 6, pi. 3 (1844, ex Hodgs. 



Icon.^: id. Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 4; J. E. Gray, Cat. Mamm. i<>' 



Birds Hodqs. p. 38 (1846) : Cass. Cat. Vvlt. Phil. Miis. p. 2 (1849); 



Grail, Cat'. Mamm. ^-c. Hodqs. p. 16 (1863). 

 Gvps i'udicus, Bhith, Cat. B.' Mas. As. Soc. Benq. p. 33 (1849) ; 



~Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E. I. Co. i. p. 4 (1854) ; StricJd. 



Orti.' Si/n. p. 10 (1855) ; Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 9 (1802) ; Grai/, 



Cat. Mamm. S^-c. Hodqs. p. 16 (1863); Gurney, Cat. Rapt. B. 



Norw. Mas. p. 74 (1864) : Gratj, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 2 (1869). 



Nearhj adult. Head bare, long and slender ; ruff dark brown, the 

 feathers niesially streaked with fulvous ; upper surface of body dark 

 brown, all the feathers streaked down the centre with fulvous, the 

 wing-coverts a little paler with more distinct streaks ; lower back 

 and rump creamy white, the feathers washed with brown on their 

 edges ; qiiills and tail black, the latter as well as the secondaries 

 slightly washed with brown ; crop-patch brown ; under surface 

 light brown, the feathers broadly streaked with creamy Avhite, the 

 thighs, abdomen, and under tail-coverts decidedly paler ; under 

 wing-coverts whitish, the small marginal ones dark brown with 

 creamy-white shaft-stripes ; bill dark horn-brown, yellowish on 

 culmen and towards the tip; feet dusky cinereous ; irides bro^^^l. 

 Total length about 536 inches, culmen 3-7o, wing 24, tail 11, tarsus 

 about 4-5, middle toe 5-5. 



Young. Head with scattered white down ; upper surface, including 

 lower back and rump, with distinct fulvous edgings and more or 

 less distinct shaft-stripes ; entire under surface dark brown with 

 very broad cream-coloured median streaks to the feathers. 



Cf. Hume, Kovgh No1es, i. p. 25. 



Hah. Indian peninsula, Burmah, Siam, and Malayan peninsula. 



fl, h. Juv. st. India. 



c. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. Type of 



G. teniiiceps and G. tenuirostris. 



d. Ad. sk. India. Colonel Cobbe [C.]. 



