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rump creamy white, the feathers washed with brown on their edges. Quills 

 and tail black or deep chocolate brown. Crop patch brown. Under surface 

 of body light brown, the feathers broadly streaked with creamy white ; abdomen 

 and under tail coverts slightly paler. Under wing coverts whitish, the marginal 

 ones dark brown with pale shaft stripes. Bill dark horn brown, yellowish 

 on culmen and towards tip. Irides brown. 



Length. 36 to 40 inches ; wing 24 ; tail 1 1 ; tarsus 4*5 ; bill from gape 2-85. 



Hab. The Indian Peninsula, Burmah, Nepal, Siam and the Malayan 

 Peninsula. Ajmere and Mount Aboo are places where this species has been 

 known to breed from December to March on inaccessible and precipitous 

 -cliffs. Eggs vary in length from 3-48 to 3*9 inches in length and from 2-62 

 to 2-85 in breadth, larger than those of G. Bengalensis ; texture finer, as a rule 

 unspotted pale greyish or greenish white, thinly spotted or blotched with pale 

 reddish brown and purplish brown. 



5. Gyps pallescens, Hume, Stray F. i. p. 150; id. vol. iii. p. 442 ; id. 

 vol. ii. p. 325, vol. ix. p, 369 ; Swinhoe and Barnes -, B. of Central India, Ibis, 

 vol. 1885, p. 54 ; Barnes, Birds of Bombay* p. 5. Gyps indicus, Hume, Rough 

 Notes, i. p. 21. The LONG-BILLED PALE BROWN VULTURE. 



Adult. Head, nape, cheeks, and throat bare, but sprinkled with brownish white 

 hair-like feathers ; lower half of the back and sides of the neck bare. Crop 

 patch covered with silky dark brown feathers ; ruff composed of soft, white, 

 much disintegrated feathers. Mantle pale earthy brown, the centres of the 

 lesser and all but the tips and margins of the larger scapulars dark hair brown. 

 The whole of the lower surface of the body pale whitey brown, vent and 

 lower tail coverts nearly pure white. Lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts 

 Avhite, tinged with pale earthy brown. Some of the longer tail coverts brown 

 at the base. Primaries and tail feathers deep chocolate brown ; secondaries 

 and tertiaries hair brown, more or less suffused on their outer webs with pale 

 dingy earthy or fulvous brown. 



A quite young bird, has the top and back of the head and upper part 

 of the back of the neck thickly covered with white down, rest of the head 

 and neck as in the adult ; crop patch covered with pale dove-coloured brown 

 feathers, lower surface pale brown, albescent towards the vent, each feather 

 broadly centred with dingy white, sides and breast the same ; ruff feathers long, 

 lanceolate, pale fulvous white, faintly margined with brown ; mantle pale hair 

 brown, the feathers with fulvous white centres mesially. Primaries chocolate 

 brown ; tail feathers the same ; rump and upper tail coverts white, in some 

 specimens very slightly tinged with brown. Rectrices of 14 feathers. 



Adult. Length 36 to 39 inches ; expanse 85 to 90 ; wing 23 to 25*5 ; 

 tail from vent 10 to 1 1 ; tarsus 3-5 to 4 ; bill from gape 2-65 to 2*95. Bill and 

 cere pale greenish yellow, horny on culmen ; irides brown ; legs and feet dusky 

 plumbeous. (Hume, Rough Notes.} 



Hab. Sind, Kutch, Jodhpur, Kattiawar, Northern Guzerat, I^^ 

 the Concan, Deccan, the Southern Mahratla country, and Central Pndia. " 



