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IS5a. Torgos tracheliotus nubicus H. Smith in Egypt, 
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]. 
+16. Torgos calvus (Scop.), Del. Faun. Insubr., Turkestan, 
li, p. So (1786): lex.’ Sonnerat, Ponda: Indiay Burmar 
cherry. | 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 - DRIGONOCERS 
Lesson (Echo du Monde Savant, Dec. 1842). 
Type (mon.) Vultur occipitals. 
Head covered with down ; no neck-lappet. 
17. Tvigonoceps 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. XII. NEOPHRON Savigny (1809). 
Type Vultur percnopterus L. 
Forepart of chest bare. 
1*18. Neophron percnopterus percnopterus (Linn.), 
