GYPS. 5 



Murray, EJbk. Zool, fyc., Sind, p. 102 ; id. Vert. Zoo?. Sind, p. 63. The 

 BAY VULTURE. 



Adult. Top of head, cheeks, chin, and throat covered with dingy, yellowish- 

 white hair-like feathers. Nape and whole of neck (except the back and basal 

 one-fifth or less) also covered, but with dense, fur-like yellowish-white down. 

 Crop patch pale wood brown, or dark brown ; rest of under surface rufous or 

 fulvous brown, with conspicuous whitish central stripes, the under wing coverts 

 darker. Upper back, whole of upper wing coverts, and all but the longest 

 scapulars, rufous ashy, or brownish rufous fawn. Secondaries, tertials, and 

 longer scapulars umber brown. Lower back and rump brown, with distinct 

 central streaks of fulvous white, the upper tail coverts more rufescent. Quills, 

 brownish black, the primaries shaded with ashy grey, the secondaries externally 

 washed and tipped with rufous ashy. Tail black, the feathers somewhat shaded 

 with brown on their margins. Feathers of the ruff lanceolate, brown or rufous 

 fawn, mesially streaked with whitish. 



Length. 41 to 47 inches ; expanse 94 to 106 ; wing 27 to 30; tail 12-5 to 

 13-5 ; culmen 3-7 ; tarsus 3*88 to 4. 



Hab. Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, 

 Oudh, Rajpootana, Central India, Kutch, and Guzerat. Breeds during January 

 and February on lofty trees, laying a single white egg usually soiled and 

 discoloured by the droppings of the parent bird. Size 3-5 x 2-8 inches. 



3- Gyps himalayensis, Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 14 (1869); 



Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 235 ; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. Br. Mus. p. 8. Otogyps fulvus, 

 Tytler, Ibis, 1 868, p. 194. The HIMALAYAN GRIFFON. 



Adult. Head, cheeks, chin, and throat closely covered with yellowish white 

 filamentous feathers ; nape, upper two-thirds of back, and sides of the neck 

 covered with a similar coloured down ; basal third of back and sides of neck 

 bare, the front sparsely studded with star-like tufts of down. Crop patch 

 whitish fawn. Ruff round the neck whitish, the feathers linear, lanceolate, 

 about 3 inches long with filamentous webs. Upper back, shorter scapulars, and 

 wing coverts (except the larger row) a nearly unichromous pale brown, or 

 whitey brown, many of the feathers inconspicuously paler centred. Lower back 

 pure white, shading into pale creamy fawn colour on the rump and upper tail 

 coverts. Longer scapulars and largest wing coverts deep umber brown, tipped 

 broadly on the scapulars with fulvous fawn, and externally washed with ashy. 

 Quills black, the secondaries brownish, the innermost inclining to fulvous 

 towards the tip. Tail black, or a deep chocolate brown. Under surface, includ- 

 ing wing lining and lower tail coverts white, or fulvous white, some of the 

 feathers on the flanks with ill-defined paler centres. Bill very pale horny 

 green, dusky at tip ; cere pale brown ; legs and feet dingy greenish grey or 

 greyish white ; claws pale brown. 



Length. 46 to 49 inches (Hume), 42 inches (Sharpe) ; expanse 106 to I lo ; 

 wing 28 to 31 ; tail 15 to 17, tarsus 4-25 to 4-8. 



