Birds, 253 
Neophron Agyptiacus, Savig. Bill horn-coloured; cere, 
forehead, space round the eyes, cheeks, ears, chin, and part of 
the throat, bare, and of a yellow or saffron colour; eyes light 
reddish brown; plumage white, usually tinted with yellow; 
feathers of nape narrow, elongated, and pointed; primary quill 
feathers black; secondaries greyish black, with the outer vanes 
more or less broadly margined with white; tail fan-shaped, 
and pure white ; legs and toes dirty greenish white, sometimes 
inclined to reddish yellow; claws dark horn-coloured. Length 
from one foot ten inches to two feet two inches; expanse of 
wings about five feet. 
Female.—A little larger than the male, but of the same 
colour. 
Young.—Black or brownish black, streaked or spotted with 
dull white or tawny. 
Inhabits Africa. 
Vultur Percnopterus, Gm. L’ Ourigourap Le Vaill. Ois @’ 
Afrig., pl. 14. Le Perenoptere, Cuv. Reg. Animal. White 
Crow of the Cape Colonists. 
Neophron niger, Lesson. Plumage brown, variegated with 
fulvous on the thighs; tarsi black; the top of the head, the 
cheeks, and the front of the neck, entirely bare; the lower part 
of neck and the posterior portion almost to the hind-head, 
covered with a close greyish down. Size of the last. 
Tnhabits Senegal. 
Cathartes monachus, Temm. pl. col. 222. 
Neophron carunculatus, Smith. Bill greenish black towards 
base, dark horn-coloured at tip; eyes dark brown; front, 
crown, sides of head, and upper part of throat bare, and of a 
purple colour, with eight or ten small 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 
the latter and the caruncles already mentioned, an oval patch 
of black feathers; lower part of cervix, interscapulars, and 
back, deep brown; the feathers all edged and tipt with a 
lighter tint; shoulders nearly the same. Primary wing feathers 
blackish, witha greyish tinge towards quills; secondaries black- 
ish brown, with the colour of the tips and edges lighter than 
that of the centres; thighs covered with a white down in addi- 
tion 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 Cafferland and the country about Natal. 
Obs. This may perhaps be identified with the preceding. 
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