6. NEOPHRON. 17 



c'. Larger ; neck-hackles evenly encircling the 



neck pUeatus, p. 18. 



<J. Smaller ; neck-hackles somewhat ascending 



towards the nape monachiis, p. 19. 



1. Neopliron percnopterus. 



Le Vautour brun, Briss. Om. i. p. -155 (1760) ; Buff. H. N. Ois. i. 



p. 167 (1770). 

 Le Vautour d'Egypte, Briss. Orn. i. p. 457 (1760). 

 Le Vautour a teste blanche, Brus. Orn. i. p. 466 (17G0). 

 Vultur percnopterus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 123 (1766) ; Yarr. Hist. Brit. 



B. i. p. 1 (1843). 

 Le Petit Vautour, Buf. H. N. Ok i. p. 164 (1770). 

 Vautoui- de Norwege, Btiff. PL Enl. i. pi. 429 (1770). 

 Vautour de Malthe, Buff. PI. Enl. i. p. 142, pi. 427 (1770). 

 Ash-coloured Vultm'e, Lath. Gen. Si/n. i. p. 13 (1781). 

 Maltese Vulture, Lath. torn. cit. p. 15 (1781). 

 Egyptian Vulture, Lath. torn. cit,. p. 31 (1781). 

 Vultur fuscus, Bodcl. Tabl. PL EnL p. 25 (1783). 

 Vultur leucocephalus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 248 (1788). 

 Vultur fuscus, Gm. S. M. i. p. 248 (1788). 

 Rachamah, Bruce, Trav. v. App. p. 163, pi. (1790), 

 Vultur stercorarius, La Peyr. N. Schw. Ahh. iii. p. 

 Vultur percnopterus, var. y. capensis, Licht. Cat. Rer. Nat. Hamh. 



p. 2 (1793). 

 L'Ouri-gourap, LevaiU. Ois. cCAfr. i. p. 62, pi. 14 (1799). 

 Vultur albus, Baud. Traiie, ii. p. 21 (1800). 

 Neophron percnopterus, Sav. Ois. d'Egypte, p. 239 (1809) ; VieiU. et 



Oudart, Gal Ois. i. p. 7, pi. ii. (1825) ; Jard. ^ Selby, LIL Orn. i. 



pi. 33 (c. 1835) ; Gould, B. of Eur. i. pi. 3 (1837); Gray, Gen. of 



B. i. p. 3 (1844) ; Cass. Cat. VtdL Phil Mus. p. 3 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 11 (1850) ; StricM. Orn. Syn. p. 12 (1855) ; ScM. Mus. 



P.-B. Vult. p. 5 (1862) ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1862, p. 133 ; 



Gurnet/, Cat. Rapt. B. p. 53 (1864); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 3 (1867) ; 



DegL 'Hf Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 12 (1867); Heugl Ortt. N.O.-Afr. 



i. p. 13 (1869) ; Blanf. Geol 8,- ZooL Abyss, p. 287 (1870) ; Einsch 



u. Hartl Vog. Ostafr. p. 33 (1870) ; Netctmi, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. 



p. 6 (1871) ; Salmd. Faun. dLtal. Ucc. p. 3 (1871) ; Shelley, B. of 



Egypt, p. 211 (1872); Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. l'(1872). 

 Vultur meleagris, PalL Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 377 (1811). 

 Cathartes percnopterus, Tenun. Man. d' Orn. i. p. 8(1820); Naum, 



V. D. i. p. 5, Taf. 1. tig. 1 (1822) ; Brehm, V. D. p. 5, Taf. 1. fig. 1 



(1831). 

 Cathartes meleagrides, Tenun. PI. Col. i. genre Catharte(1824); Less. 



Man. i. p. 74 (1828). 

 Percnopterus ffigyptiacus, Steph. Gen. ZooL xiii. pt. 2, p. 7 (1826). 

 Neopliron segyptiacus, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 16 (1829). 

 Cathartes europaeus, Brehm, Isis, 1840, p. 599. 

 Cathartes capensis, Brehm, nt suprd. 



Adult. General plumage white, the neck-hackles, which extend 

 nearly to the occiput, somewhat tinged with rusty ; primaries black, 

 externally ashy white at the base ; secondaries dark brown, exter- 

 nally ashy white, shading into dark brown again towards the tips of 

 the feathers ; head bare, with a little scanty down on the throat and 



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