252 African Zoology. 



the back scapulars and belly pure white; cere blue ; head and 

 neck naked, of a rosy-violet colour; bill yellow ; tarsi flesh- 

 coloured. Total length two feet five inches. 

 Inhabits Western and Northern Africa. 



Vultur monachus, Gmel. Head surmounted by a tuft of 

 brown down ; cheeks and throat covered with a black down ; 

 circle round eyes white. Feathers of the colleret long and 

 slender ; all the naked part of the neck between the collar and 

 the black down, dull white. The lower part of neck naked, 

 the skin bluish and plaited ; tarsi and toes whitish : the entire 

 of the plumage an uniform brown. Length from bill to ex- 

 tremity of tail about three feet. 



Inhabits Africa. 



Voutour chincou, Levaill Afriq. pi. 12. Temm. pi. col. 426. 



Vultur niger, Gmel. (Black vulture). Skin of head and 

 part of neck blue, and covered with down ; the neck with a 

 colleret of long, narrow, bristly feathers ; bill black ; cere, 

 tarsi, and toes bluish. The body, the wings, and the tail, 

 black; the eyelids grey- white. Total length three feet and a 

 half. In birds of the first, second, and third years, the plumage 

 is more or less mixed with brown. 



Inhabits Europe and Africa. 



Egypius Niger, Savigny, Oisseau d* Egypt et de Syrie. 



Vultur occipitalis, Burchell. (Tufted Vulture). Bill and 

 feet flesh-coloured ; bare space round the eyes white ; eyes of 

 the colour of burnt umber ; top of the head covered with a 

 white feathery wool, which, at the back part, is longer and 

 stands in a reversed position. Colour above blackish brown ; 

 the thighs and under-parts of body and neck white ; quill 

 feathers and tail black, the secondaries white towards their ex- 

 tremities. The part of the neck which is bare, together with 

 the base of the beak, white. Total length two feet ; expanse 

 of wings seven feet. 



Inhabits Africa. 



G-enus NEOPHRON. Savigny. 



Bill slender, long and rounded, swelled towards the point, 

 and hooked ; lower mandible shorter than the upper, and trun- 

 cated; nostrils oval and open', cere broad; cheeks and throat 

 naked ; tarsi naked, slender, and reticulated ; third quill feather 

 the longest. Tail composed of fourteen feathers. 



