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confinement, "the white skin of the neck was tinged with a 

 varying shade • of rose-colom-." Mr. Ayres says, of an adult 

 male procured by him at Natal, " bill blood red, black at the 

 tip, and light blue at the base ; skin round the eye and nostril 

 light blue ; eye light brown ; skin of the neck Klac-colour." 



The adult plumage of this Vulture is figured in Eiippell's 

 "Atlas zu der Eeise in Nordlichen Afrika," pi. 22, and the 

 immature in Temmiuck's " Planches Coloriees," pi. 13. 



SPECIMENS OF VULTUR OCCIPITALIS. 



Skoleton S Natal (G) Mr. Ayres. 



No. 1. adult Bissao (G) Mr. Verreaux. 



No. 2. immature Natal (G) Mr. Ayres. 



No. 3. adult Ditto (G) Ditto. 



VULTUR MONACHUS (Linnaeus.) 



CINEREOUS VULTURE. 



This noble Vulture is an inhabitant of many of the moim- 

 tainous regions of southern and central Eiu'ope and Asia, as well 

 as of northern Afiica. In Eui'ope, the coimtries in which it 

 has been chiefly observed, are the south of France (where it 

 appears as a migratory visitor in the spring, and nests in the 

 Pyi-enees), Spain, Italy, the Ukraine, Hungary (where it nests 

 in the Tartra mountains), Albania, Bessarabia, the Danubian 

 Provinces, the steppes of southern Kussia, and the Crimea. Occa- 

 sional specimens have been procured in Germany, and one is 

 recorded as having been killed as far north as Denmark. This 

 species also inhabits the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. 

 The Asiatic localities in which it has been ascertained to 

 exist are Asia Minor, Syria, Nepal, and Assam, the latter 

 being the most easterly point to which its geographical range 

 is known to extend, as, though a specimen figured by Le Vail- 



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