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EGYPTIAN VULTURE. 
Neophron percnopterus. 
Vultur percnopierus, Alpine Vulture, Bewick, Brit. Birds, edit. 1832, 
vol. i. p. 51. 
Neophron x Egyptian Neophron, Sx~py, Ulustrations of British Orni- 
thology, vol. 1. p. 4. 
bs es = & JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. An. p. 79. 
a ie Vulture, Eyron, History of Rare British 
Birds, p. 1. 
op x SS Neophron, Gou.p, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 
Cathartes 35 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 
