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weight 4 lbs. Ad. S • Total length 23 inches ; expanse 

 56 inches. 



The weight of an immature male was 3 lbs. 



Two of these specimens, a male and female_, are in the 

 white plumage of the adult ; the other two^ also male and 

 female, are immature, and are of a dirty brown colour 

 throughout. 



[This Vulture was quite common on the Liberian and 

 Gold Coasts : a pair were nesting in a dead tree^ the nest was 

 bulky and formed of sticks ; but unfortunately the trunk of 

 the tree was covered with large spikes, which made it 

 inaccessible even to a native. — W. P. L.] 



Neophron monachus (Temm.). 



Neophron monachus Reich, i. p. 522. 



a. ? imm. Sekondi. 22nd Dec, 1910. (No. 181.) 



Iris brown; bill and bare part of head bluish; feet bluish. 



Total length in the flesh 26 inches ; expanse of wings 

 5 ft. ; weight 4 lbs. 



This specimen, which is in immature plumage, differs from 

 the adult in having the feathered part of the nape, neck, and 

 lower part of the throat brown instead of dirty white, the 

 brown feathers extending over the crown almost to the base 

 of the bill. The ruff in this example is almost white, 

 as in the adult ; very young birds, according to the Cata- 

 logue of Birds, vol. i., have the ruff brown. I conclude, 

 therefore, that this species assumes the white ruff before 

 the neck and thighs become white. 



[Found throughout the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone but 

 not in Liberia. One was nesting in a cotton-wood tree in 

 Sierra Leone, the nest being placed about thirty feet from 

 the ground. — W. P. L.] 



Phcenicopterus minor Geoffr, 

 Phnmicopterus minor Reich, i. p. 352. 



a-c. c? ad. et imm. Walfish Bay. 8th Dec, 1910- 

 1st April, 1911. (Nos. 75, 654, 662.) 



Iris reddish yellow ; bill reddish; feet red, 



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