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neck ; sides of face more or less bare, with thiu downy white hair 

 or white down on tlie sides of face and throat ; lower neck bare all 

 round ; ruff dark brown, not meeting underneath or impending on 

 the breast ; general plumage above and below blackish brown, the 

 lower back and rump much paler brown ; median and greater wing- 

 coverts margined more or less with whitish, more conspicuous on the 

 former ; quills and tail black, the latter glossed with brown, the 

 secondaries grej'ish brown on the outer webs, whitish on the inner 

 ones, the inner secondaries pure white, those adjoining the back of 

 the same colour as the latter ; crop-patch white ; abdomen, thighs, 

 and under taU-coverts pure white ; under wing-coverts brown, the 

 lower ones white at the tip ; bill blood-red, black at tip, blue at base ; 

 feet flesh-colour ; iris umber-brown. Total length 32 inches, cul- 

 men 3-55, wing 26-5, tail 12-2, tarsus 4-9, middle toe 4-4. 



Toimg. Paler brown, with dark brown feathers everywhere ap- 

 pearing ; the down on the head, crop-patch, white wing-feathers, 

 and abdomen tinged here and there with brownish. 



Hab. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Imm. sk. Abyssinia. Frankfort Museum. 



b. Ad. St. Kurrichaine, S. Afi-ica. M. Ven-eaux. 



6. NEOPHRON. ^ 



Neophron, Savif/ni/,Si/st. Ois. d'Egijiyte, p. 238 (1808) N. percnopterus. 



Percnopterus, Ra/inesqite, Analyse, p. 69 N. percnopterus. 



Necrosyrtes, Gloger, Hanclb. Naturg. p. 236 (1842);. N. monachus. 



Gypiscus, Sundev. Av. Tent. p."110"(1873) '. N. pileatus. 



Bill of Neophron percnopterus. 



Range. Occasionally in Northern Europe. Found in all the coun- 

 tries bordering the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and occurs also in 

 Southern Africa, extending to Persia and the countries fringing the 

 Persian Gulf to the peninsula of India, over the whole of which it 

 is distributed. 



Key to the Species, 



a. White ; fore part of chest bare. 



a'. Larger; bill horn-brown; wings reaching to 



tail percnopterus, p. 17. 



b'. Smaller; bill yellow; wings not reaching to 



tail ginginianus, p. 18. 



b. Chocolate-brown ; a fur-like chest-patch. 



