128 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
on both sides of the Mediterranean, and extends to India and 
China. 
It is recorded that an Egyptian Vulture (Neophron pereno- 
pterus) was shot in Somersetshire in the year 1525. When 
found it was busy eating the carcass of a sheep, and was so 
gorged that it could not, or would not, fly far at a time. 
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The King Vulture (Cathartes papa). 
There are fully sixteen species of Vultures, forming a group 
which is peculiar to the Old World, where they “ange over its 
warmer regions, save the Malay islands, Ceylon, Madagascar, 
and Australia. 
In the New World there are nine other kinds of Vultures 
forming a distinct group. Of these the Condor (Sarcorhamphus 
