5. LOPHOGtPS. 15 



Adult. Glossy black, inclining to brown on lower back and rump, 

 some of the scapulars also washed with brown ; quills black with 

 white shafts, shading into brownish towards the tips ; the primaries 

 washed with grey near the base, the secondaries "whity brown, 

 blackish towards their tips ; tail black, shaded with brown, the 

 shafts brownish ; crop-patch black ; a conspicuous circlet of Avhite 

 down across the breast, and a patch just above the thigh -joint ; 

 under surface of body deep black ; inner face of thighs bare ; round 

 the neck a small rufl' of black plumes, somewhat impending on each 

 side of the breast, so as to overshadow the two bare patches which 

 are conspicuous on each side of the chest ; bill horn-black : feet dull 

 red : iris redcUsh brown. Total length about 31 inches, culmen 2-5, 

 wing 2-4-5, tail 11, tarsus 4-1, middle toe 3-8 (in skeleton). 

 ►■ Young. Pale brown, without any indication of grey on any part 

 of the wings ; imder surface also pale brown, the white downy pec- 

 toral ruff not developed to any extent ; head covered with whitish 

 down above, becoming brown towards the nape and round the 

 ear-orifice ; neck-lappet almost as much developed as in the adults. 



Hah. India generally, eastwards to Siam. 



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



b. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



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



d. Ad. st. Incha. 



5. LOPHOGYFS. 



Type. 

 Lophogyps, Bp, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 531 .... L. occipitalis. 



Range, North-eastern Africa and Southern Africa ; probably the 

 whole of the eastern side of the continent ; on the western side only 

 occurring in Senegal. 



1. Lophogyps occipitalis. 



Abyssinian Vulture, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. i. p. 31 (1821). 



Vultur occipitalis, Burch. Trav. ii. p. 329 (1824, descr. orig.) ; Temm. 



PI. Col. i. pi. 13 (1824); Cretzschm. in Bilpp. At/, p. 35, t. 22 



(1826); Smith, S. Afr. Q. Joimi. i. p. 15 (1829); Riipp. N. W. 



Vog. p. 43 (1835) ; 'Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 5 (1844); Cass. Cat. 



Vult. Phil. Mus. p. 1 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 11 (1850) ; Schl. Mtcs. 



P.-B.Yvilt. p. 8 (1862); Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1862, p. l2Q;Brehm, 



Reis. Habesch,Y>. 243 (1863) ; Gurney, Cat. Rapt. B. p. 65 (1864) ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 5 (1867) ; Fimch u. Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 33 



(1870) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. of Dam. Ld. p. 4 (1872). 

 Vultur galericulatus, Less. Traite, p. 23 (1831) ; Pucher. Rev. et Mag. 



de Zool. 1850, p. 208. 

 Vultur eulophus, Ehr. in Mus. Berol. ; Licht. Xomencl. Av. Mus. 



Berol. p. 1 (1854). 

 Lophogyps occipitalis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 531. 

 Vultur chincou (jiec Daitd.), Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 7 (1855) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. of B. i. p. 2 (1869) ; Sharpe, Lbis, 1870, pp. 422, 588. 



Adult. Crown of head covered with dense white down, collecting 

 into a ridge on the occiput, more thinly distributed on the hinder 



