CLASS II. AVES: ORDER 1. RATTORES. 



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THE KING VULTURE. 



V. occipitalis, found in Africa ; the Monk Vulture, V. monachus, the V. chincou of Temminck, 

 found in Africa and Asia; the Chaugoun Vulture, V. Indicus of Latham, found in the environs 

 of Calcutta and Pondicherry. 



Genus NEOPHRON : Neophron. — This includes the Egyptian Vulture, N. percnopterus — the 

 Vautour Ourigourap of Levaillant; the Rhachamah, or Pharaoh's Hen, of Bruce and others; 

 the Maltese Vulture of Latham. The head and only the front of the neck are covered with a 



