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Subfam. Neophronin^e. 

 Genus Neophron, Savigny, 



81. N. PERCNOPTERus. (PL Eul. 407, 429 ; Gould's B. E. 

 pi. 3.) 



Syn. Vultur percnopterus, L. (nee Pallas). V. leucocephalus 

 et V. fuscus, Gmelin. V. ginginianus et V. albus, Daudin. V. 

 meleagris, Pallas. V. fuscus, Boddaert. V. leucocephalus, Brisson. 

 Percnopterus (sgyptiacus, Stephens. 



Hah. Warmer regions of Europe, Asia, and Africa : abundant 

 on the plains of India; rare and accidental below the tideway 

 of the rivers in Lower Bengal. A summer visitant in Afghanistan. 



Earn. GYPAETIDiE. 



Genus Gypaetos, Storr. 



82. G. liARBATUs. (Gould's B. E. pi. 4.) 



Syn. Vultur barbatus, L. V. bai'barus et Falco magnus, Gmelin. 

 V. leucocephalus et V. melanocephalus, Meyer. G. grandis, Storr. 

 G. alpinus, G. castaneus, et G. aureus, Daudin. G. himalayanus, 

 Pearson*. G. hemachalanus,llvXion. Phene ossifraga,Sa.\igny. 

 Polypteryx cupido, Hodgson f. 



Hah. High mountains of Europe and Asia ; Himalaya ; Af- 

 ghanistan ; Salt and Sulimani ranges. ' Golden Eagle ' of An- 

 glo-Indian residents in the Himalaya {vide Adams, in P. Z. S. 

 1858, p. 467). 



Tribe II. Nocturne. 



Fam. STRIGID.E. 



Subfam. Bubonin^|. 



Genus Huhua, Hodgson. 



83. H. oRiENTALis. (PI. Col. 174, 229.) 



* " T see them both with and without the pectoral band " (the late 

 Lieut. Trotter, in epistola). 



t Prince Bonaparte recognises as distinct G. orientalis {meridionalis, 

 Brehm), from the Pyrenees, Sardinia, Arabia, and Abyssinia, and G. nudipes, 

 from Africa. 



X A Nepalese shikari in the employ of Mr. Hodgson, and brought by 

 him to Calcutta, very positively recognized the Bubo maximus as a species 



