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Another Algerian specimen, from Laghouat, in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., is in very similar plumage, 

 with the exception of some slight remains of immatiu'e dress, 

 chiefly on the underparts, and is of exactly the same dimen- 

 sions, except that the middle toe, which is unusually short in 

 the Souk-Harras specimen (possibly from some defect in pre- 

 paration), measures 4| inches, without the claw, in the ex- 

 ample from Laghouat : of the latter specimen the sex is not 

 marked ; but its dimensions indicate a male bird. 



That the Spanish Grifibn Vultures are not always particu- 

 larly rafescent, may be inferred from an immature Pyrenean 

 specimen in the Norwich Museum (sex unknown), which 

 wants the usual fulvous tint of the young birds of G. fulvus. 

 The general colour of this specimen is a drab-brown, with 

 pale shaft-stripes on the interscapularies and upper tail- 

 coverts, and with the crop-patch a chocolate-brown of me- 

 dium intensity. 



An immature male from Tangiers, in the same collection, 

 resembles the above, but is slightly paler and with the crop- 

 patch pale fawn-colour. The measurements of this specimen 

 (which I give, as the sex is known) are as under — entire 

 length 45^ inches, wing from carpal joint 28, tarsus 3|, 

 middle toe s. u. 4^. 



The Norwich Museum possesses two more immature speci- 

 mens of this Vulture — one from Athens, and the other from 

 North-east Africa (Nubia or Abyssinia) : these two speci- 

 mens are very similar and decidedly rufescent ; the crop-patch 

 in both is fawn-coloured, but rather darker in the African 

 bird than in that from Greece. 



A specimen of the Indian Grifibn, for which Mr. Hume has 

 proposed the specific name name oifulvescens, and which was 

 presented to the Norwich Museum by Captain Marshall, who 

 obtained it at Bhurtpoor, scarcely differs in coloration from the 

 specimen from North-east Africa above alluded to, except in 

 having the crop-patch a little paler. This individual is a 

 female; and its measurements are as under — entire length 

 42 inches, wing from carpal joint 29, tarsus 3f, middle 

 toe s. u. 4^. 



