LOPHOSYPS. NEOPHRON. 229 



Genus LOPHOGYPS, Bp. 

 Lophogyps occipitalis (Burch.). 



Vultur occipitalis, Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 287. 



Lophogyps (Tccipitalis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 15 (1874) ; id. ed. 



Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 5 (1884) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 242 



(1899). 



The sole egg of the White-headed Vulture in the Collection 

 is of a lengthened oval shape and plain white. It measures 3"9 by 

 2-55. 



1. Transvaal, July (7". Ayres). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus NEOPHEON, Savigmj. 



The eggs of the two species of Vultures of this genus are quite 

 inseparable, and both pass through the same variations of size and 

 colour. 



They are normally of a regular oval shape, but elliptical, bi- 

 conical, and even spheroidal examples are to be met with. The 

 shell is rough but has, at times, a slight amount of gloss. 



The coloration is extremely varied. The ground is white, cream- 

 colour, pale grey, or rufous white, and while some specimens are 

 marked with only a few reddish-brown specks at the larger end, 

 others are covered with confluent masses of deep reddish brown to 

 such an extent that little of the ground-colour remains visible. 

 Between these two extremes every variation in shade, extent, and 

 intensity of markings is found. Some specimens are almost uni- 

 formly marked all over, while many have a large cap of richer 

 colour at one end. 



Neophron percnopterus {Linn.). 



Cathartes percnopterus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. liii. fig. 2 (1845- 



54). 

 Neophron percnopterus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Viig. tab. 9. fig. 2 (1855-63) ; 



Sail-in, Ibis, 1859, p. 180; Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 282, 1865, p. 249; 



Newton, Oath. Wall. pt. i. pi. i. figs. 1-6 (1864) ; Saunders, Ibis, 



1871, p. 57; IIe7tf/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 1, p. 13, tab. xxxviii. 



(1873) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M'. i. p. 17 (1874) ; Dresser, Birds 



Eur. V. p. 391 (1879) : Irh/, Orn. Str. Gibr. 2nd ed. p. 152 (1895); 



Sharpe, Iland-l. i. p. 243 (1899). 

 Vultur percnopterus, Hetcitso7i, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 5, pi. ii. (1856) ; 



Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 11, pi. i. (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, 



p. 2, pi. i. figs. 4, 5 (1896). 



The eggs of the Egyptian White Vulture measure from 2-3 to 

 2-9 in length, and from 1-8 to 2-1 in breadth. 



2. South Europe {Hargitt Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Malaga, Spain, 22nd March (//. Seebohm Coll. 



Saunders). 



1. Malaga, 28th April (//. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Sotomayor, Malaga, 7tb May {H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



