VULTU1UD.E. 5 



5. Gyps Kolbii (Daud.). South-African Griffon -Vulture. 

 Le Cluisse Jiente, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 10. 

 Gyps fuh'us, Layard's Cat. No. G. 

 Gyps Kolbii, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 9. 

 Viiltur fuhms (part.), Finsch & Ilartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 1. 



This Vulture is sparingly found in Damara Land. I 

 have chiefly observed it in the vicinity of the sea, above 

 Oosop rocks on the lower course of the Svvakop River. 



[I have had some hesitation in treating this Vulture^ which is 

 evidently the southern representative of Gyps fulvus, as speci- 

 fically distinct from its more northern congener, from which 

 however^ it constantly differs in being less fulvous when in imma- 

 ture plumage^ and also in having its head and neck less com- 

 pletely clothed with downy hairs and plumelets — differences 

 which may perhaps suffice to constitute a specific distinction. 



I have seen specimens from various parts of South Africa^ but 

 have not personally examined one from Damara Laud. — Ed.] 



6. Gyps Riippelli, Bon. lliippeU's GrifFon-Vulture. 

 Vultur Kolbii, Riippell's Atlas Reise ncird. Afr. pi. 32. 

 Gy^ys vulgaris, Layard's Cat. No. 7. 

 Gyps Riijypellii, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 12. 



[Mr. Andersson's last collection contained a Vulture of this 

 species shot in Ondonga^ Ovampo Land^ on the 14th November, 

 1866.— Ed.] 



FALCONIDiE. 



7. Aquila VUlturina, Daud. Verreaux's Eagle. 



Aquila Verreataii, Ues Murs, Zool. de la Voyage en Abyssinie, pi. 5. 



„ „ Layard's Cat. No. 13. 



Pteroaetus vulturina, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 98, 



This Eagle nests in Little Namaqua Land on lofty 



