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NEOPMON, OR EGITTIAN VULTUEE. 



NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS {Linn.}. 



Vultur percnopterusj Linn. S. N. i. p. 123 {1706) ; HcwUson, 



i. p. 5. 

 Catliartes percnopterus, Naum. i. p. 170. 

 Neophron percnopterus, Macy. iii. p. 166 ; Yarr. etl. 4, i. 



p. 6; Dresser, v. p. 391. 



Vautor d'Egypte, French; Aas-Voyel, Aas-Geier, German; 

 AUmoche, RejUero, Abanto, Quebrantahuesos, Grajo 

 bianco, Spanish. 



This repulsive but most useful bird lias occurred at 

 least on two occasions in England : in the first instance 

 two were seen, and one of them shot, in Somersetshire 

 in October 1825; the second occurrence is recorded by 

 Doctor C. Bree in the 'Zoologist' for 1S68 as having 

 taken place on the 28th of September of that year, near 

 Peldon in Essex ; all three birds seem to have been in 

 immature plumage. The Neophron is a summer visitor 

 to many parts of Southern Europe, and breeds occasion- 

 ally, to my personal knowledge, as far to the north as 

 the neighbourhood of Aix les Bains in Savoy. In 

 Spain, especially in Andalucia, this species is exceed- 

 ingly common. Colonel Irby, in his ' Ornithology of 



