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15a. Torgos tracheliotus nuhicus H. Smith in Kgypt, 



Griffith's Animal Kingdom, i., p. 164 (1829). Abyssinia, 



[Nubia.] Upper White 



Northern Sociable Vulture. Nile, cas. in 



Europe. 

 With the ear-lappets lacking ; [doubtfully 

 distinct]. 



flG. Torgos calviis (Scop.), Del. Faun. Insubr., Turkestan, 



ii., p. 85 (1786). [ex. Sonnerat, Pondi- India, Burma, 



cJicrry.^ Siam,Cambodia. 

 Pondicherry Vulture. 



Wing ad. 570-608 mm. ; above and crop- 

 patch black ; across breast a circlet of 

 of white down ; below black ; ruff small, 

 black. 



Gen. XI. TRIGONOCEPS 



Lesson (Echo du Monde Savant, Dec. 1842). 



Type (mon.) Vtdtur occipitalis. 



Head covered with down ; no neck-lappet. 



17. Trigonoceps occipitalis (Burch.), Trav., ii., N.E. Africa & 



p. 329 (1824). [Makkwari R., Bechuana- S. Africa, 



land.] Senegal on W. 

 White-headed Vulture. 



Length ad. about 36 in. ; wing 582 mm. ; 

 plumage blackish brown, rump paler ; ruff 

 dark brown ; crop-patch and under parts 

 white. 



Gen. Xn. NEOPHRON Savigny (1809). 

 Type Vtdtur percnopterus L. 



Forepart of chest bare. 



1*18. Neophron percnopterus percnopterus (Linn.) , 



