VULTURID^E. 



RAPTORES. 



VULTURIDJE. 



EGYPTIAN VULTURE. 



Neophron percnopterus. 



Vultur percnopterus, Alpine Vulture, 

 Neophron 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, edit. 1832, 



vol. i. p. 51. 



Egyptian Neophron, SELBV, Illustrations of British Orni- 

 thology, vol. i. p. 4. 



JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. An. p. 79. 



, Vulture, EYTON, History of Rare British 



Birds, p. 1. 



Neophron, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



Cathartes Catharte alimoche, TEMMINCK, Manuel d'Ornithologie, 



vol. i. p. 8 



NEOPHRON. Generic Characters. Beak straight, slender, elongated, round- 

 ed above, encircled at the base with a naked cere, which extends more than 

 half the length of the beak : upper mandible with straight edges, hooked at 

 the tip ; under mandible blunt, and shorter than the upper. Nostrils near the 



