VULTUEIN^. 7 



of the back are of a loose texture, lengthened and lanceolate ; and 

 the feathers are edged and tipped lighter. 



Bill with the cere red mixed with ashy, dusky black at the tip ; 

 the naked part of neck also ashy red, irides brown, legs dusky 

 yellow. 



Length 44 to 48 inches; wang 33; tail 14; bill straight to gape 

 4; height not quite 2; tarsus 4|-; mid toe and claw 5, 



This fine Vulture is found, though rarely in the Himalayas, occa- 

 sionally descending to the plains. I saw it at Saugor in Central 

 India, and also at Mhow. It is found in the lofty hill ranges of 

 Southern Europe and N. Africa. 



V. occipitalis, Burchell (galericulatus, Tem., PI. col. 13 — Rupp, 

 Atl., pi. 22), from Africa, is another species of True Vulture. 



Gen. Otogyps, Gray. 



Head and neck bare, sides of neck with a wattle of skin ; bill 

 very thick and strong ; crown of the head flat ; cranium very large, 

 otherwise as in Vultur. 



Bonaparte does not separate this sub-genus from the last. 



2. Otogyps calvus, Scop. 



Vultur, apud ScoPOLi— Blyth, Cat. 132 — HoRSF., Cat. 2— 

 Vultur Ponticerianus, Daud.— Tem., PI. col. 2 — Sykes, Cat. 2— • 

 Jerdon, Cat. 3 — Gray and Hardw., 111. Ind. Zool. I., pi. 15, f. 2 — 

 Mavg-gidh, H. also Mulla gidh of some — Bhaonra H. of Shikarees 

 — Lal-mata Shakuni, Beng. — Raj Sogon, or Rajgidh at Bhagulpore 

 — Nella horawa, Tel. — Rannaparita of the Yerklees. 



Black Vulture. 



JDescr. — Adult, dark brown black throughout, brownish on the 

 scapulars and some of the secondaries ; neck in front with some 

 short brown feathers partially covering the crop, and between this 

 and the dark feathers of the lower parts a zone of white downy 

 feathers, which shows conspicuously ; head with a few scattered 

 hair-like feathers about the ears and cheeks. 



Cere, naked head, and neck, deep yellowish red, often more or 

 let^s black spotted; legs dull red. Irides red brown, yellow in 



