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assume in many cases a finer plumage than those in a wild 
state. But altogether the bird strikes me as far more rufous 
and less stoutly built, than the true Griffon, and until, by the 
identification of the specimens which I send home, the matter 
can be settled, I provisionally designate our bird as G. FuLvEs- 
cens. This may be the bird (I have never seen the figure) 
figured by Temminck (Pl. Col. 26) as G. Indicus ; but if so, the 
name having been, previously, I believe, appropriated to the 
species, which I shall next notice, (Gyps Indicus, Scop.) it cannot 
stand. Perhaps our Bird is identical with G. Rueppelli from 
Abyssinia, or G. Vulgaris of Savigny (if these be, as I believe, 
synonymous); or with G. Kodbii, which, however, both Mr. Gur- 
ney and Mr. Blyth, I believe, unite with true Fulvus ; or it may 
be some other already known African species. In the absence 
of European and African specimens to compare it with, I am 
unable to decide, but so far as I can make out, it has not hither- 
to been discriminated in India, as a separate species, and there- 
fore, for the moment, I designate it G. FuLVEscENs. 
drd.—Gyps Indicus (Verus) Scop. The real slender-billed, or 
long-billed, brown Vulture, a bird with 14 rectrices it is true, 
like the preceding, but little larger than, and only about the 
same weight as G. Bengalensis. I cannot help thinking that 
Dr. Jerdon has described the immature bird of this species, as 
the young of Bengalensis. Hesays, p. 10, vol. I. “The young 
is lightish brown above, the feathers centred paler, quills, tail, 
and scapulars blackish brown, beneath light brown, the feathers 
broadly centred with whitish.” Now this is an exact description 
of the immature (I do not mean quite young, but not adult) 
Gyps Indicus. ‘The young of Bengalensis, is really always a 
more or less dark brown above and below, and the feathers of 
the lower parts, are narrowly, and never broadly centred with 
whitish. 
4th.—Gyps Bengalensis, of which no more need here be 
said. 
I now proceed to furnish exact measurements and a detailed 
description of G. Himatayensis, which, if really distinct from 
Fulvus, well deserves the specific name I have proposed, | having 
observed it myself in, or received specimens of it from, all parts 
of the Himalayas, from Cabool to Bhootan. 
Length, 46 to 49 inches. Expanse, 106 to 110 inches. Wing, 
08 to dl. Tail, 15 to 17. Tarsus, 4°25 to 4:8. Mid toe, 4:3, its 
claw, along curve, 1:5 to 1-9. Inner toe, 2°4; its claw, 1:51 to 
1:9. Hind toe, 1°75, its claw, 1°5 to 1:9. Bill, from gape, 3:1 to 
3°44; straight, from edge of cere to point, 2°15 to 2:25; 
along curve, from edge of cere to point, 2°56 to 2°73; height 
