2 VULTURIN. 
middle one by a membrane; hind-toe short; claws rather blunt, 
strong, not much curved. 
Sus-Famity, Vulturine. 
Bill large, thick, strong, higher than broad, hooked only at the 
tip; cere large; nostrils naked, transverse; head and upper 
part of neck naked, or covered only with down; wings long, 
first quill short, third and fourth quills sub-equal, fourth longest ; 
tail moderate or rather short, with twelve or fourteen tail feathers ; 
tarsus reticulated, with some large scute near the claws, 
Genus, Vultur, Zin. 
Tail with twelve feathers; bill rather short, strong, deep, 
curving from the end of cere; nostrils round or oval; tarsus 
feathered from more than half its length; claws strong, rather 
acute. 
The neck ruff advances upwards towards the hinder part of 
the head, and there is a transverse occipital crest of down ; 
otherwise as in the characters of the sub-family. 
Vultur monachus, Zin, 
1.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 6; Butler, Guzerat; Stray 
Feathers, Vol. III, p. 441; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of 
Sind, p. 62; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 
1885, p. 53; Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 1. 
THE CINEREOUS VULTURE. 
* Length, 42 to 45; expanse, 96 to 118; wing, 29°5 to 82 ; 
tail, 13 to 16; tarsus, 4°8 to 5°5; bill from gape, 3°6 to 4. 
Bill horny, dusky black at tip, paler at base of upper mandible ; 
cere pale-mauve; naked part of neck delicate bluish-white, 
occasionally shaded pink ; irides brown ; legs creamy-white. 
The whole body, including the wings, isa rich, very dark, 
chocolate-brown, beneath darker; quills and tail nearly black ; 
ruff conspicuous, dense, feathers lengthened and lanceolate, rather 
lighter in color than the back; lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and 
crown covered with dark-brown fur-like feathers, sparse below 
but dense and soft on the upper parts of the head. 
This fine Vulture is comparatively rare; it has not as yet been 
recorded from the Deccan or South Mahratta country. Butler 
only observed a single specimen in Guzerat, Murray states it to 
be a winter visitant to Sind, and Jerdon notes its occurrence 
in Central India, where I have myself occasionally met with it. 
Of its nidification in this country nothing appears to be 
known. 
Genus, Otogyps, Gray. 
Head and neck bare, sides of neck with a wattle of skin; bill 
* All dimensions are in English inches, 
