12 VCLTTTRID^. 



Adult. Head and neck bare, with a few dull brown bristles on 

 crown and nape ; ruft' white, rather scanty ; upper surface of body 

 black, the wing-coverts somewhat tinged with brown ; lower back 

 and rump white ; upper tail-coverts black, some of them white ex- 

 ternally ; quills and tail black, the secondaries externally washed 

 with greyish brown ; crop-patch black ; under surface of body 

 deep chocolate-brown, almost black, streaked with narrow shaft- 

 stripes of fulvous ; under Aviug-coverts white, those adjoining the 

 carpal margin black ; cere horny black ; upper mandible greyish 

 white, bluish grey at tip ; lower mandible dusky, inclining to duU 

 lead-colour at the base. Total length about 30 inches, culmen 3-1, 

 wing 23-5, tail 11, tarsus 4-2, middle toe 4-7. 



Young. General colour above chocolate-brown, some of the 

 feathers slightly paler-mai-gined, especially on the wing-coverts ; 

 lower back, rump, ami upper tail-coverts rather paler, with fulvous 

 shaft-stripes ; wings and tail as in adult, but the grey shade on 

 secondaries more dingy ; head and neck covered with white stubby 

 down, more scanty on sides of face, which are for the most pai-t 

 bare ; croji-patch deep fulvous brown : ruff composed of lanceolate 

 feathers, white with fulvous-brown margins ; under surface of body 

 pale russet, with obsolete narrow whitish shaft-svripes, with here 

 and there a feather of darker brown showing ; under wing-coverts 

 darker brown, striped like the breast. 



Hub. Indian peninsula, eastward to Assam and Burmah ; Ma- 

 layan peninsula to Penang. 



a. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



b, c, d. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 e. Ad. St. India. Dr. Eoyle [P.]. 

 /. Ad. St. India. 



g. Juv. st. India. South-African Museum. 



/(. Skeleton. Zoological Societv. 



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2. Pseudogyps afiricanus. 



Gyps bengaleusis, RUpp. Syst. Uebers. p. 9 (1845). 



Vultur bengalensis, Brehm, J. f. O. 1855, p. 486 ; Hmgl. J. f. O. 



1864, p. 241. 

 Tultur moschatus. Wilrtt. Naum. 1857, p. 4-32 (descr. nulla) ; Hmgl. 



J.f. O. 18(37, p.' 290. 

 Gyps indicus, Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 97. 

 Gvps tenuirostris, Antin. Cat. Descr. Ucc. p. 5 (1865) ; id. J. f. O. 



"1866, p. 116. 

 G^-ps africauus, Salvad. Not. Stor. R. Accad. Turin. 7 Mav, 1865, 



p. 133; Heu(/l. J. f. 0. 1867, p. 199; Hume, Rough Xotei, i. p. 31 



(1869) ; Jer'd. Ibis, 1871, p. 2.36. 

 Gyps moschatus, Sulrad. nt supra. 

 Yiiltur leuconotus africauus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 6 (1869); 



id. Nachtr. p. iii. 

 Pseudogyps moschatus, Sharpe, Ann. N. H. (4) xi. p. 133 (1873). 



Adult. General colour deep brown, some of the feathers on the 

 back and wing-coverts blackish brown ; lower back and rump pure 

 white ; upper tail-coverts brown, some inclining to blackish ; quiUs 



