210 BIRDS OF EGYPT. 



southern provinces of Egypt ; he observes, however, that he 

 has not met with it in Lower Egypt. 



Head thinly covered with dusky-coloured down ; neck 

 flesh-colour, naked, and covered with wrinkles ; at the back 

 of the neck a partial collar of short stiff feathers ; back and 

 wings brown ; under surface of the body paler, the feathers 

 long and narrow ; legs and cere yellowish grey ; beak and 

 irides brown. 



Total length 45 inches ; culmen 3'7 ; wing 31 "5 ; tarsus 6" 5. 



203. Gyps fulvus (Gm.). Griffon Vulture. 



This species is plentifully distributed throughout Egypt 

 and Nubia. At Edfoo I met with several hundreds of them 

 around the body of a dead camel, which they were extremely 

 unwilling to quit, and allowed my dragoman to hit at them 

 with his stick before they would take wing. Towards the 

 end of April I observed a pair in the mountains of Aboo 

 Fayda, where they were probably breeding. 



Head and neck covered with short white down ; lower 

 part of the neck surrounded by a ruff of long, slender, white 

 feathers, occasionally tinged with rufous ; quills and tail 

 dusky ; remainder of the plumage brown, with a slight tint 

 of rufous on the body ; legs hght brown ; beak slate-colour ; 

 ii'ides hazel. 



Entire length 48 inches ; culmen 2'9 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 27 ; tarsus 4. 



Immature birds have the head and neck dirty white, varied 

 with brown, and the rest of the plumage much lighter than 

 in the adult, with white and grey markings. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 1. 



