4 Mil. E. B. SnARPE ON THE 



Smyrna in summer ; but I think I have seen it with other Vultures near 

 Kaias {Kriiper, J.f. 0. 1869. p. 23). 



Cyprus. (Mus. BeroL). 



Palestine. By no means common, but a few scattered over the country 

 (Tristram). 



Egypt. Throughout the country, but nowhere abundant {Shelley). Von 

 Heuglin only once saw it, near Benisouef, and considers it to be a very 

 rare straggler. 



Algeria. Not common, only seen singly or in pairs (Loche); in the 

 mountainous parts, more especially in the neighbourhood of Constantine 

 {Taczanowski, J.f. 0. 1870, p. 36). 



Morocco. Once near Tangier (Favier) ; a specimen, perhaps the identi- 

 cal one obtained by Favier, is in the Norwich ]Vluseum from Tangier (Irby 

 B. Gibr. p. 28). 



Northern Persia {Blanford). 



Turkestan. All over the country, breeding. Found during the winter 

 season in the north-western and south-western divisions of the country 

 {Severtzoff). Cf. Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 98. 



India. By no means rare throughout the north-west provinces, becoming 

 more common in the country north-west of Delhi in the cold weather 

 {Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 234). Throughout the Punjaub, N.W. Provinces, 

 Oudh, and Rajpootana, north-west of the Avavalli Hills in the cold weather, 

 being most abundant in the far north-west, and becoming less and less 

 common as you proceed south and west ; a few specimens met with in that 

 portion of the Central Provinces known as the Sagar and Nerbuddah terri- 

 tories, and in the northern or Shikarpoor collectorate of Sindh {Hume) ; 

 once about twenty miles north of Ahmedabad {Butler) ; not yet received 

 or heard of from Jodhpoor, Cutch, Kattiawar, or Sindh ; and though it 

 may doubtless occur within this vast tract, it can only be as a rare strag- 

 gler {Hume); met within the cold weather near the Sambhur lake {Adam, 

 S. F. 1873, p. 367); once at Ajmere, and further north in Rajpootana it 

 is not uncommon (Hwme); Nepal (Ho%sora); Darj eehng (Jerrfow) ; Bho- 

 tan {Hume) ; Assam {Jenkins, Mus. Calc). 

 Mongolia {David). 



China, Peking {David) ; Ningpo {Swinhoe, Mus. Brit.) ; mouth of the 

 Shanghai river and Chusan archipelago {Swinhoe), 



2. G-TPS FULVUS. (Map 11.) 



G. FULvus (Gm.); Sharpe, Cat. i. p. 5. 



The Grriffon Yulture is here considered as one species, for after 

 Mr. Grurney's observations (Ibis, 1875, pp. 88, 89) I do not think 

 tbat my proposed separation of the Spanish bird as a distinct race 

 can be upheld. In fact the way in which the Griffons wander 

 would render it difficult to draw the exact range of one of the 



