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corpore supra pallide rufescenti-isabellino, cinereo tincto : tectricibus alarum fuscis fulvido terminatis, 

 mediauis dorso concoloribus et in parte apicali fulvido lavatis : remigibus et rectricibus fuscis : corpore 

 subtus rufescenti-isabellino, albido striate 



Adult Male (Souk Harras) . Head and neck sparingly covered with white hairs ; ruff composed of white 

 down, which is more profuse on the hind neck; upper parts generally stone- buff, the larger wing- 

 coverts darker in the central portions of the feathers ; wings and tail darker than the rest of the upper 

 parts, the former shaded with grey ; underparts stone-buff, the crop-patch darker and marked with 

 narrow pale stripes ; bill slate ; iris hazel ; legs light brown. Total length about 46 inches, culmen 3 - 4, 

 wing 3O0, tail 14 - 9, tarsus 4 - 0. 



Nearly Adult Female (Gennesareth, 29th February) . Head and neck covered with short white down ; lower 

 neck encircled by a ruff of long, lanceolate, creamy-buff feathers ; upper parts generally creamy buff 

 marked with dull earth-brown ; quills and tail dark brown, the former with a pale-brown tinge on the 

 upper surface; underparts creamy buff dashed and irregularly striped with warm earth-brown and 

 slightly tinged with pale rufous ; bill slate-colour ; iris hazel ; legs light brown. Total length about 

 48 inches, culmen 35, wing 28 - 4, tail 15'0, tarsus 4"4. 



Young (Southern Spain). Upper parts generally ashy fawn, the base of the feathers tinged with grey; 

 larger wing-coverts brown tipped with fulvons, median coverts pale fawn shaded with fulvous towards 

 the tips, quills black, the secondaries tinged with brown ; tail blackish ; rump rufous fawn striped with 

 whitish ; ruff creamy white tinged with fawn ; underparts rufous fawn streaked with white. 



The Griffon Vulture inhabits Southern Europe and Africa, ranging eastward into Western Asia. 

 Occasionally, though rarely, it straggles into Northern Europe, and has been met with even in 

 Great Britain on one occasion, as an adult example was caught by a lad on the rocks near Cork 

 Harbour in the spring of 1843. 



It has not been recorded from Sweden or Norway ; but Mr. Benzon informs me that one was 

 shot in Jutland, Denmark, in the spring of 1858, and according to Dr. Kjserbolling, one was 

 obtained there previously. 



In Russia, according to Mr. L. Sabanaeff, it is found in the Kaslinsky Ural, where it breeds ; 

 and he further states that it ranges as high as 59° N. lat., having been obtained in the Pavdin- 

 skaia Dacha. He records the capture of one within sixty miles of Moscow in 1841, and says 

 that sportsmen have assured him that they have seen this species in the district of Jaroslaf, 

 which he thinks may have been the case. Severtzoff speaks of it as an annual migrant in the 

 Government of Voronege. In Poland it is rarer than Vultur monachus ; and Mr. Taczanowski 

 writes that in the Warsaw Museum there is a specimen which was killed near Samose about 

 twenty years ago ; there was also a specimen taken alive near Warsaw, which is now in the 

 collection of Canon Wyszynski. 



It is of very rare occurrence in North Germany ; but Borggreve says that examples have 

 been obtained near Danzig, in Ober Lausitz, near Oldenburg and Minister. Professor Schlegel 

 includes it as a straggler to Holland; and Dr. Altum writes (J. f. O. 1863, p. 112) that it has 

 occurred on several occasions in East Friesland. 



It is said to have been observed near Luxembourg in 1855, and has been obtained in the 

 north of France. Baillon states that an immature example was killed near Abbeville, and one 



