392 



VULTURID^ 



LOPHOGYPS 



Ibis, 1869, p. 287 ; Gurney in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 4 



(1872). 

 Lophogyps occipitalis, Slmrpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 15 (1874) ; id. ed. 



LayanVs B. S. Afr. pp. 5, 793 (1875) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 237 



[Mashonaland] ; Butler, Feilden, and Ecid, Zool. 1882, p. 167 



[Natal]; Fleck, Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 392 [Gt. Namaqualand] ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 154 (1896) ; Reichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 515 



(1901). 



Description. Adult. Crown of the head to half way between 

 the eyes and nostrils and behind to below the occiput covered with 

 a dense white down ; sides of the face and chin including a space 



FIG. 135. Lophogyps occipitalis. x f . 



round the eyes and ear openings bare with a few scattered white 

 bristles ; lower neck bare all round ; at the base of the neck behind 

 is a black ruff not meeting in front ; general colour above, very dark 

 brown, a little paler on the rump; some of the median coverts 

 edged with paler brown; primaries and tail-feathers black; second- 

 aries dark brown, the inner ones washed with silvery ; below, crop 

 patch, thighs, lower abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; breast, 

 upper abdomen, and sides of the body very dark brown ; greater 

 under wing-coverts white, median and lesser brown. 



Iris umber-brown ; bill red, darker at the tip ; cere bluish ; 

 naked skin of head and neck pale lilac ; feet pinkish flesh. 



Length 40-0; wing 25-0; tail 11-0 ; culmen 3-5 ; tarsus 4-25. 



