THE EGYPTIAN NEOPHRON. 



Neophron percnop terns S AVION Y . 

 PLATE I. 



Neophron percuopterus, Savigny, Oi's. de P Egypt e, pi. 16. 

 Catharte alimoche, Cathartes percnopterus, Temm. 

 Man. i. p. 8 Egyptian Neophron, Selby's Illustrations:, 

 pi. A Ornithol. Illust. by Sir W. Jardine and P. J. 

 Selby, pi. XXXIII. (from the specimen killed in Somer- 

 setshire.) Gould's Birds of Europe, adult and young. 

 Ey ton's Rarer British Birds. Yarrells British Birds. 



AFRICA appears to be the stronghold of this 

 Neophron. We have received it from the vicinity 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. It is noted by various 

 travellers to occur on the northern ccssts, and on 

 the shores opposed to Europe it is extremely 

 abundant ; whence, crossing to Southern Europe, 

 the frequency continues, but gradually decreases 

 as we advance northward, and France and Bri- 

 tain may be accounted the utmost limits to which 

 wanderers occasionally stray. Notwithstanding, 

 however, its great abt ndance in Spain and the 

 opposite African shores, we have no record of its 

 habits. Its general food appears to be carrion in 

 all its forms, and in some parts it is protected on 



