230 FALCoxrn^. 



plish gloss, the back and breast-feathers clearl}' tipped with whitish, 

 and some of the wing- coverts also washed with whitish towards the 

 tips. 



Obs. A nestling procured by Mr. A. B. Brooke in Sardinia, covered 

 with i/ellovjish down is figured in part xv. of Dresser's ' Birds of 

 Europe' (cf. Brooke, Ibis, 1873, p. 143). 



Hah. The mountains of Southern Europe and N.E. Africa, ex- 

 tending eastwards from Asia Minor and Palestine through Central 

 Asia to the Himalayas and N'orthern China. 



a. Pull. sk. Gaitanes, S. Spain. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. [Spec. fig. 



in Dresser, B. Eiu-. pi. 3.] 

 Howard Saunders, Esq. [P.]. 

 C. W. L. Merlin, Esq. [P.]. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Giinther. 

 Hon. E. I. Co. 



2. Gypaetiis ossifragns. 



Nisser or Golden Eagle, Bruce, Trav. Abyss, v. App. pi. 31 (1790). 

 Phene ossifraga, Savign. Syst. Ois. (TEgypte, p. 245 (1809). 

 Gypaetiis barbatus, Smith, S.-Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 105 (1830) ; Des 



Murs in Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss. Ois. p. 43 (18j5) ; Heugl. J.f. O. 



1862, p. 295; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Revue Accipitr. p. 141 (1873, 



Gypaetus meridionalis, Keys. 1^- Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xxviii (1840) ; 



Btipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 9, pi. 1 (1845) ; Strickl. Oni. Syn. p. 17 



(1855); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 2 (1867); Blanf. Geol. 8) Zool. Abyss. 



p. 298 (1870); Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 200 (1870). 

 Gypaetus nudipes, Brehm, Isis, 1847, p. 772 ; Bp. Cotisp. i. p. 10 



"(18.50); Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1862, p. 125; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 1 (1869) ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 209 (1872). 

 Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis, Sehl. Mim. P.-B. Vultures, p. 10 



(1862); Hevgl. Oni. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 17 (1869). 



Similar to G. barbatus, but wanting the black markings on the 

 cheeks, which are entirely white, and having the lower part of the 

 tarsus not feathered. Total length about 38 inches, culmen 3-8, 

 wing about 29, tail about 18"5, tarsus 4. 



Young. Besides the difference in the feathering of the tarsus, the 

 young bird differs from that of G. barbatits in having the cheeks 

 browner and not so intermixed with black. 



Hub. Mountainous parts of Egypt, N.E. Africa, and Southern 

 Africa. 



a. 2 ad. St. Ankober, Dec. 1841. Sir W. C. Harris [C. 



b. c? juv. St. Ankober, Dec. 1841. Sir W. C. Harris [C. 



c. Juv. sk. Angollala, Shoa, Oct. 1841. Sir W. C. Hams fC' 



d. Juv. sk. Angollala, Shoa. Sir W. C. Hams [C' 



