318 YTJLTUEID^E. 



Genus OTOGYPS, Gray, 1841. 



Head and neck bare, without any down in adults ; a wattle of 

 skin on each side of the neck behind the ear ; ruff very small ; 

 bare neck extending farther down than in Vultur, to which genus 

 the present is very similar. 



Two species, one African, the other Indian. 



1191. Otogyps calvus. The Black Vulture or 

 Pondicherry Vulture. 



Vultur calvus, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insub. ii, p. 85 (1786) ; 



Hume, Rough Notes, p. 8 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 232 ; Adam, S. F. 



i, p. 367 ; A. Anderson, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 676 ; 1875, p. 17 ; Blyth, 



Birds Burm. p. 64. 

 Vultur ponticerianus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p. 7 (1790) ; Sykes, P. Z. S. 



1832, p. 77 ; Jerdon, Mad. Jour. L. S. x, p. 63 ; Gray in Hardw. 



III. Ind. Zool. i, pi. 15, fig. 1. 

 Otogyps calvus, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 6 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 32 ; 



Horsf. fy M. Cat. i, p. 2 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 7 ; Stoliczka, J.A.S. B. 



xli, pt. 2, p. 230 ; Hume, N.^E.^.l; Davidson, S. F. ii, p. 336 ; 



Sharps, Cat. B. M. i, p. 14 ; Brooks, 8. F. iii, p. 228 ; Butler, 



S. F. iii, p. 441 ; vii, p. 179 ; ix, p. 369 ; Blanford, S. F. v, p. 245 ; 



Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 1 ; Davidson fy Wend. S. F. vii, p. 72 ; 



Gurney, ibid. p. 170; Ball, ibid. p. 196; Cripps, ibid. p. 240; 



Hume, Cat. no. 2; Bingham, S. F. viii, p. 190; ix, p. 142; Scully, 



S. F. viii, p. 217 ; Doig, ibid. p. 370 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 29 ; 



Davison, S. F. x, p. 331 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 2 ; Oates, B. B. ii, 



p. 171 ; id. in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed'. iii, p. 209 ; Barnes, Birds 



Bom. p. 3 ; id. Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 38 ; iii, p. 206. 

 Rdj-gidh, Mulla-gidh, Bhaonra, H. ; Lung-nong-loong, Lepcha ; Raj 

 Sagun, Beng. ; Nella Boraiva, Tel. ; Rannapanta, Yerkli. 



Fig. 82. Head of 0. calvus,^. 



Coloration. Adult. Scattered black hairs on the nape and sides 

 of the head and on the throat, more closely set around the ear- 

 orifice: head above and neck bare; plumage generally glossy 



