VULTURIN^. 9 



Bill greenlsli horn, dusky at the base; legs dirty yellow. Irid 

 brown; length 4 feet; wing 33 inch; tail 15. Bill straight to 

 gape, 3;^ ; height If ; tarse 4^ ; mid toe 5^. 



The clothing feathers are more or less lanceolate at all ages ; 

 there are fourteen tail feathers ; the nostrils are nearly exactly 

 transverse, and narrow ; the tarsi are feathered in front for nearly 

 half their length, and there are three or four scuta at the extremity 

 of the outer toe. 



This fine Vulture is nearly confined to the Himalayan ranges 

 in India. In Europe it frequents the mountains of the Alps and 

 Pyrenees, extending into Northern Africa and Western Asia. 

 It breeds on rocky cliffs, laying only one egg, which is said to be 

 sometimes white, with a few reddish spots ; at other times richly 

 marked with red. Salvin says it is a cleanly, docile, and f^ood- 

 tempered bird. 



4. Gyps Indicus, Scop. 



Vultur, apud ScoPOLi — Temminck, PI. col. 26 — Sykes, Cat. 

 1 — Blyth, Cat. 134 — Horsf., Cat. 6 — Jerdon, Cat. and Suppl. 

 Cat. 1 — Gray's 111. Gen. of Birds, pi. 3 — V. tenuiceps and V. 

 tenuirostrisj Hodgs. — Sdgiin, Sdkun, Sogen and Changoun, Beno-. 

 — MuTia dho, Mahr., Burra gidh or Phari gidh, H. 



Long-Billed Brown Vulture. 



Descr. — Pale cinereous brown, albescent on the back and rump ; 

 the greater coverts and scapulars darker, quills and tail blackish 

 brown ; beneath pale tawny, brown on the sides of the breast and 

 flanks ; axillaries much lengthened, wliity brown ; feathers of the 

 ruif whitish, rather short; thighs internally white and downy; 

 head and neck nearly bare ; crop covered, with short close dai'k 

 chocolate brown feathers. Bill and cere bluish horny, dusky at 

 the tip ; legs and feet dusky cinerous ; irides brown. 



Length 43 inches ; wing, 26 to 29 ; tail 12 ; ext. 8 feet ; tarsus 

 4-h ; mid toe and claw 4f ; bill at gape 3; height 1§. 



Adams gives it as occasionally 4 feet long, and nearly 9 feet in 

 expanse, and 19fbs. in weight. Surely this must have been an 

 individual of Gyps fulvus, 



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