6. NEOPHRON. 19 



B. Vult. p. 5 (1862) ; Gurney, Cat. Rapt. B. p. 53 (1864, pt) j 

 Layard, B. S.Afr. p. 4 (1867) ; Ch-ay, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 4 (1869) ; 

 Finsch II. Harti. Vo(j. Odafr. p. 35 (1870J j Gurney in Anderss. B. 

 Dam. Ld. p. 2 (1872). 



Adult. Chocolate-brown ; quills and tail black ; crown of bead, 

 sides of face, throat, and fore neck bare, of a purple colour in Hfo ; 

 eyelashes and bristles on the lores black ; whole of hind neck up 

 to the occiput covered with thick fluffy down, of a whitish colour 

 tinged with brown; a patch ou the lower throat and the neck- 

 hackles dark brown ; crop-patch pale creamy brown, encircled on 

 the upper and lower margins by conspicuous patches of white down ; 

 inner face of thighs also covered with white down ; bill greenish 

 black towards the base, dark horn-colour near the tip ; feet greenish 

 blue, claws black ; iris dark brown. Total length about 26 inches, 

 culmen 2'7, wing 20, tail lO'S, tarsus about 3-7. 



Young. Very similar to adult, but having the down on the hind 

 neck entirely dark brown and extending more on to the crown of 

 the head ; crop-patch and inner face of thighs dark brown, the white 

 down so conspicuous in the adults being absent ; head sparsely 

 sprinkled with black down, collecting towards the nape. 



Hah. South Africa. 



a. Ad. st. South Africa. South-African Museum. 



b. Jiiv. st. South Africa. South-African Museum, 

 e. Pull. st. South Africa. South-African Museum. 



4. Neophron monachus. 



Cathartes monachus, Temm. PL Col. i. pi. 222 (1823); Haiti. J.f. O. 



1855, p. 360. 

 Percnopterus monachus, Staph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 7 (1826). 

 Percnopterus niger. Less. Traite, p. 29 (1831). 



Neophron monachus, Jard. i^- Selhy, III. Orn. i., text to pi. 33 (c. 1835). 

 Necrosyrtes monachus, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 236 (1842). 

 Neophron pileatus, Hartl. Beitr. Orn. W. Afr. p. 14 (1852) ; Horsf. 



4- Moore, Cat. B. Mns. H. I. Co. i. p. 8 (1854); Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. 



pp. 1, 269 (1857) ; Peh. Verh.z.-b. Wien, 1862, p. 133; ScJd. Mns. 



P.-B. Vult. p. 5 (1862) ; Brehm, Reise n. Habesch, p. 234 (1863) ; 



Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 15 (1869); Blanf Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss. 



p. 287 (1870) ; Finsc/i, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 200 (1870). 



Advlt. Similar to N. pileatus, but smaller, with a longer and 

 more attenuated bill ; the feathers of the neck ascending somewhat 

 towards the nape. Total length 24 inches, culmen 3, wing 18-5, 

 tail 10, tarsus about 3"3. 



Young. Diifers from adult exactly as in H. pileatm. 



Hah. North-eastern and Western Africa. 



J. G. Children, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Baikie [C.]. 

 Sir W. C. Harris [CI. 

 Sir W. C. Harris [C.]. 

 W.T.Blanford,Esq.[C.]. 

 [Cy. Blanf. Z.c] 



c 2 



f. Skeleton. 



