wnhabiting the South of Africa. — 17 
Wherever travellers have penetrated, specimens of this 
bird have been met with, and though nowhere congregated in 
numbers, yet the individuals are so numerous, that there is 
scarcely a farm-house in the colony, or a kraal, or a temporary 
resting place for travellers beyond it, which are not once or 
oftener in the course of the day visited by one or more of 
them. In their flight they are constantly in search of carrion, 
which forms their only food; and it is with a view of pro- 
curing such that they resort to the localities just mentioned. 
They build their nests in crevices of rocks of difficult access, 
and lay one or two eggs. 
2. NEOPHRON CARUNCULATUS.—Smith.* 
N. obscuro-fuscus ; caput et pars superior gutteris purpurea 
et nudata, ultimum carunculis parvis transversis albis octo 
aut decem ; trides fusce. 
Bill greenish black towards base, dark horn colored near 
tip; eyes dark brown; front, crown, sides of head, and upper 
part of throat bare, and of a purple color, with eight or ten 
white transverse caruncles on the latter; nape, upper part of 
neck, and lower part of throat covered with a light reddish 
brown down, and between that of the latter and the caruncles 
already mentioned, a large oval patch of black down; lower 
part of cervix, interscapulars and back deep brown; the 
feathers all edged and tipt with a lighter tint; shoulders 
nearly the same; primary quill feathers blackish, with a gray- 
ish tinge towards quills; secondaries blackish brown, with 
the color of the tips and edges lighter than that of the cen- 
tres ; thighs covered with a white down in addition to some 
long brown feathers on the outer sides; legs and toes pale 
greenish blue ; claws black. Length two feet two inches ; 
breadth from tip to tip of wing five feet six inches. Inhabits 
the North-East frontier of the colony, and is not uncommon 
towards the sources of the Orange River. 
Obs.—This species in most of its characters resembles 
the genuine Neophron, whilst, in the want of feathers on the 
throat, it approaches the Vultures. The Vultur Occipitalis 
of Ruppelt is described as having slight transverse caruncles 
upon the upper part of the throat, but the form of its bill, 
and its other characters, clearly bespeak its position to be 
in another genus. 
(To be continued.) 
* South African Advertiser, May 13, 1829. 
+ Atlas zu der Reise im Nordlichen Afrika yon Eduard Rupell, erste, A bthei- 
lung Zoologie, page 33, taf. 22. 
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