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VULTUEID^ 



NEOPHRON 



560. Neophron percnopterus. Egyiitian Vulhire. 



Vultur percnopterus, Limi. Syst. Nat. i, p. 123 (1766). 



L'Ouri-gourap, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i, p. 62, pi. 14 (1799). 



Neophron tegyptiacus, Smith, 8. A. Quart. Jouriu i, p. 16 (1829). 



Neophron percnopterus, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 236 (Natal) ; id. Descript. 

 Cat. Eapt. B. p. 50 (1861) ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 8 (1867) ; Gurney in 

 Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 1 (1872) ; 81iar])e, Cat. B. M. i, p. 17 

 (1874) ; id. ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. pp. 6, 794 (1875-84) ; Butler, 

 Feilden, and Eeid, Zool. 1882, p. 167 ; 8helley, B. Afr. i, p. 155 (1896) ; 

 Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 137 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 255 [Mashonaland] ; Beichenoiv, Vog. Afr. i, p. 521 (1901). 



" Pharoah's Hen" or " Pharoah's Chickens" of English; "Witte 

 Kraai" (i.e.. White Crow) of the Dutch. 



Fig. 136. — Tail of Neophron percnopterus. 



Description. Adult. — Top of the head, sides of the face and 

 throat bare, except for a few scattered bristles and feathers in front 

 of the eye ; the feathers commencing on the occiput and continuing 

 down the back of the neck, those on the occiput lanceolate and 

 erect forming a ruff; general colour throughout a dirty white 

 shghtly tinged, especially on the neck, with pale rufous; winglet 



