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SPECIMENS OF GYPAETUS BABBATU8. 



Skeleton § Pyrenees (G) Mr. Verreaux. 



,^ , , , , f Valley of Mama, near ) Presented by J. 0. Back- 

 No. 1. * adult ... ] ^^/ ° f , •' 

 ^ Nice J house, Esq. 



No. 2. adult Island of Sardinia (G) Mr. Parzudaki. 



„ _ , ,, (■ Bas-nerre de Biffore, ),„,,, ... 



No. 3. adult ... " ^, ^^ ^ ' UG) Mr. PhiHppe. 

 K South of France ) 



XT A . ■ ^ iL I Province of Constantino, ) ,_, _, ^ „ 

 No. 4. i advilt ... I ^^^^^ • f (G) Dr. L. Bavry. 



No. 5. nestling ... Djebel Delema, Algeria... (G) Rev. H.B.Tristram. 



No. 6. J immature... Algeria (G) Mr. Verreanx. 



No. 7. ? immature... Ditto (G) Rev. H.B.Tristram. 



No. 8. $ immatui-e... Asia Minor (G) Zoological Society. 



No. 9. i nestling . . . Erzeroom (G) Mr. Verreaux. 



No. 10. adxxlt ... I ^^^^ ^^''' ^°^* I (G) Mr. Warwick. 

 (. Western Hmialayah... J 



No. 11. immature... Ditto (G) Ditto. 



No. 12. immatm-e... Landom Range, Himalayah (G) Major T. S. Hors- 



brough. 



No. 13. adult Himalayah Mountains (G) Mr. "Warwick. 



GYPAETUS MERIDIONALIS (Bonaparte.) 



SOUTHERN GYPAETE. 



Dr. Eiippell, in his work entitled " Systematische Ueber- 

 sicht der Vogel Nord-ost Afrikas," gives the following infor- 

 mation respecting this species : — " Both species fbarhatus and 

 meridionalisj perfectly coi'respond in the colouring of the 

 plumage, as well as in the proportions of size. The character- 

 istics by which meridionalis is distinguished, being that the 

 tarsi for above a quarter of theii- length in front and on the 

 inside, and for above half their length at the back and on the 

 outside, are unfeathered and reticulated ; and that the region 

 of the comer of the mouth from thence extending below the 



