14 TtrLTURIDJE. 



E. I. Co. i. p. 3 (1854); Sfrickl. Ont. Si/n. p. 8 (1855); Jaub. <§• 

 Barth. Mich. Oni. i. p. 21 (1859) ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1862, 

 p. 127; Brc'hm, Seise n. Habesch, p. 246 (1863); Lai/ard, B. S. 

 Afr. p. 5 (1867) ; Grat/, Huml-l. of B. i. p. 2 (1869) ; Blanf. Geol. 

 Sf Zool. of Abyss, p. 286 (1870) ; Gurnexj in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. 

 p. 2 (18?2) ; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 210 (1872). 



Adult. Above brown, a little paler on the margins of the feathers ; 

 quills and tail blackish : secondaries washed with chocolate-brown, 

 the inner ones paler, margined like the back ; crop-patch brown ; 

 under surface of body thickly clothed with white down, the feathers 

 lanceolate, brown with paler edgings ; under wing- and tail-coverts 

 brown, the latter somewhat more rounded in shape ; head and neck 

 entirely bare, with folds on the hinder neck ; above the eye and 

 on the throat a few hair-like bristles, and a few downy bristles 

 round the ear-oiifice ; on the lower part of neck some short downy 

 brown feathers, below which a ruff of brown plumes encircles the 

 hinder neck, the lateral ones somewhat elongated and pendent, but 

 not joining underneath ; cere lavender-grey ; bill deep yellow, 

 brownish near the base ; feet lavender-grey ; iris deep brown. 

 Total length 45 inches, culmen 5, wing 30, tail 14, tarsus 5-3, and 

 middle toe 4-9 in skeleton. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but the margins to the feathers 

 rather paler and more distinct ; a little more down on the head, and 

 the down clothing the lower surface of the body inclining to fulvous. 



Hah. Southern and Xorth-eastern Afiica into Egypt ; occasional 

 in Southern Europe. 



a. Ad. sk. Egypt. J. Bm-ton, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Juv.st. Shoa (-ffflr77s). Hon. E. I. Company [P.]. 



c, d. Sk. Abyssinia {Harris) Secretaiy of State for India [P.]. 



e. Ad. St. Africa. Dr. Lidtli de Jeude. 



f. Juv. st. South Africa. South-African Museum. 



2. Otogyps calvus. 



Vautour roval de Pondicherry, Sonn. Voy. Ind. Or. ii. p. 182, pi. 104 



(1"82). " 

 Vultur calvus, Scop. Del. Faun, et Flor. Lisi^br. ii. p. 85 (1/86, ex 



Soim.) ; Schl. Mtis. P.-B. ^'ult. p. 8 (1862) ; Pek. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 



1862, p. 128 ; Gurney, Cat. Rapt. B. p. 56 (1864) ; Hume, Rough 



Notes, i. p. 8 (1869). 

 Vultur pondicerianus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 7 (1790); Daud. Ann. 3Ius. 



i. p. 286, pi. XX. (1802) ; Temtn. PL Col. i. pi. 2 (1820) ; Gray, III. 



Ind. Zool. i. pi. 15. fig. 2 (1830) ; Less. Traite, p. 23 (1831). 

 Otogyps calvus, G. R. Gray, Gen. ofB. i. p. 4 (1844) ; J. E. Gray, Cat. 



Mamm. 8i B. Nep. Hodgs. p. 38 (1846) ; Cass. Cat. Vult. Phil. 



Mus. p. 1 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. Beng. p. .32 (1849) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 10 (1850) ; Horsf. % Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. 



i. p. 2 (1854) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. 'de Zool. 1854, p. 531 ; Strickl. Orn. 



Syn. p. 8 (1855) ; Gordd, B. of Asia, pt. xii. (1800) ; Jerd. B. of Ind. 



i. p. 7 (1862) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nep. Hodgs. p. 16 (1863). 

 Otog\-ps pondicerianus, Blyth, Ann. N. H. xiii. p. 115 (1844). 

 Hem'igvps pondicerianus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). 

 Gyps calvus, Bhjth, Ibis, 1866, p. 233; Home, Ibis, 1871, p. 112. 



