260 African Zoolcyy. 



feathers wliite towards base, ashy towards points, and crossed 

 by two black bands, the first narrow, irregular, and separating 

 the white and grey colours ; the last broad, and near to the 

 extremity; lips of all the feathers white. Legs and toes yel- 

 lowish brown ; claws black. Length fiom bill to point of 

 centre tail-feathers three feet five inches. 



Inhabits Africa, — common in South Africa. 



Falco serpentarins, Lin. Vultur serpcntarius. Lath. pi. 2. 

 Ophiotheres cristatus, A''icill. Gal. pi. 2G0. Lc IMangenr de 

 Seipents, Levail. pi. 25. Secretary b'n^ofthe Caps Colonists. 



Fam. VULTURID.E. 



Head, and more or less of neck, divested of feathers ; the 

 former covered with down, hair, or fieshy membranes ; cere 

 bald or hairy ; tarsi robust and reticulated ; chivvs weak ; quills 

 ]t>nger than the tail, the first quill the shortest ; the fourth the 

 loudest. 



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Genus Vultur. UUger. 



Bill thick and rather short, deeper than broad, its base covered 

 by a cere; vpper mandible straight, bent towards the point ; un- 

 der mandible straight, rounded, and inclined at the point ; head 

 naked or covered icith short down ; nostrils naked, lateral, open- 

 ing diagonulhj towards the edge of the cere; legs strong, fur- 

 nished with slighthj-bent claws; the middle toe longest, and 

 united with the exterior one at the bass ; the third and fourth 

 quill feathers longest, 



' Vultur arrianus, Picot La Pejn-. Colour brown, inclining 

 * to black and sometimes to fulvous ; bill brown-black ; cere 

 "violet ; eyes dark brown; head and nape bare; skin bluish ; the 

 rest of neck covered with a fulvous down ; lower part of neck 

 with a colleret of long narrow delicate feathers ; tarsi partly 

 feathered ; the bare portion, and the toes, greyish ; clav;s black. 

 Length three feet six inches. 



Young. — The entire of the neck covered with down, and all 

 the feathers of the npper parts terminated by a colour of a 

 lighter tint. 



Inhabits Egypt, India, and Europe. 



Le Vautour noir d' Egypt, Savig. Syst. des Ois. d' Egypte, 

 J). 14. L'Arrian, Gerard. Tab, elem. d' Orn. vol.\. p. 11. 

 Cinereous, Ash-coloured, and Bengal Vulture, Latham, Ind. 

 Orn. 



• Vultur fulvus, Gmel. (Fulvous A''uiture.) Head and napo 

 covered with dirty short whitish hairs, or bristles ; lower 

 part of cervix hare, and of a bluish colour ; loAver part of 



