Birds. 253 



Neophron JZgyptiaciis, Savig. Bill horn-coloured; cere, 

 forehead, space round the eyes, cheeks, ears, chin, and part of 

 the throat, bare, and of a yellow or saffron colour ; eyes light 

 reddish brown ; plumage white, usually tinted with yellow ; 

 feathers of nape narrow, elongated, and pointed ; primary quill 

 feathers black; secondaries greyish black, with the outer vanes 

 more or less broadly margined with white ; tail fan- shaped, 

 and pure white ; legs and toes dirty greenish white, sometimes 

 inclined to reddish yellow; claws dark horn-coloured. Length 

 from one foot ten inches to two feet two inches ; expanse of 

 wings about five feet. 



Female. A little larger than the male, but of the same 

 colour. 



Young. Black or brownish black, streaked or spotted with 

 dull white or tawny. 



Inhabits Africa. 



Yultur Percnopterus, G-m. L' Ourigourap Le Vaill. Ois d* 

 vl. 14. Le Percnc 

 the Cape Colonists. 



V UlUlU ^ 



Afriy., pi. 14. Le Percnoptere, Cuv" Eegl Animal. White 

 Crow of f 



Neophron niger, Lesson. Plumage brown, variegated with 

 fulvous on the thighs ; tarsi black ; the top of the head, the 

 cheeks, and the front of the neck, entirely bare ; the lower part 

 of neck and the posterior portion almost to the hind-head, 

 covered with a close greyish down. Size of the last. 



Inhabits Senegal. 



Cathartes monachus, Temm. pi. col. 222. 



Neophron carunculatus, Smith. Bill greenish black towards 

 base, dark horn-coloured at tip ; eyes dark brown ; front, 

 crown, sides of head, and upper part of throat bare, and of a 

 purple colour, with eight or ten small white transverse caruncles 

 on the latter. Nape, upper part of neck, and lower part of 

 throat, covered with a light reddish brown down, and between 

 the latter and the caruncles already mentioned, an oval patch 

 of black feathers ; lower part of cervix, interscapulars, and 

 back, deep brown ; the feathers all edged and tipt with a 

 lighter tint ; shoulders nearly the same. Primary wing feathers 

 blackish, with a greyish tinge towards quills ; secondaries black- 

 ish brown, with the colour of the tips and edges lighter than 

 that of the centres ; thighs covered with a white down in addi- 

 tion to some long brown feathers on the outer sides ; legs and 

 toes pale greenish blue ; claws black. Length two feet two 

 inches ; breadth from tip to tip of wing five feet six inches. 



Inhabits Cafferland and the country about Natal. 

 Obs. This may perhaps be identified with the preceding. 



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