6 



Still paler. 

 13c. Gynmogyps africanus zechi Erlanger (t.c.) 



Gen. X. JORGOS Kaup (1828). 



Head with fleshy folds and a neck-lappet ; tarsus 

 longer than middle toe. 



Above and crop-patch brown ; ruff of brown 

 feathers on hind neck ; below clothed with white 

 dowTi, with brown lanceolate feathers on breast 

 and abdomen. 

 14. Jorgos tracheliotus (Forst.) Levaillant, Reise 

 Afr., ii., p. 362, pi. 12 (1791). 

 Sociable Vulture. 



Above and crop-patch black ; across breast 

 a circlet of white down ; below black ; ruff 

 small, black. 

 15. Otogyps calms (Scop.), Del. Faun. Insubr., ii., 

 p. 85 (1786). 

 Pondicherrv Vulture. 



Togoland. 



S. Africa. 

 Egypt, 

 Abyssinia, 

 Upper White 

 Nile, cas. in 

 Europe. 



Turkestan, 

 India, Burma, 

 Siam, Cam- 

 bodia. 



Gen. XI. LOPHOGYPS Bp. (1854). 

 Head covered with down ; no neck-lappet. 



Plumage blackish brown, rump paler ; ruff 

 dark brown ; crop-patch and under parts 

 white. 



16. Lophogyps occipitalis (Burch.), Trav.,ii., p. 329 N.E. Africa 

 (1824). & S. Africa, 

 White-headed Vulture, Senegal on W. 



Gen. XII. NEOPHRON Savigny (1808). 

 Forepart of chest bare. 



Plumage white ; primaries black ; length 25 

 in. ; wing 19.2. 



17. Neophron 2>ercnopterus percnoptervs (Linn.), S. Europe, 

 S.N., i., p. 87 (1758). Africa S. to 

 Egyptian Vulture. Mashonaland, 



Mediterra- 

 nean Persic 

 sub-region to 

 N.W. India. 



