136 VTTLTCRID^. 



Order ACCIPITRIFORMES. 



Suborder ACCIFITBES. 



Family VULTURIDiE. 



Genus GYPS Savigny, Descript. de I'figypte, i. part i. 1809, 

 pp. 68, 71. 



Type: G. fulvus {G:me\.'). 

 Gyps=yv\p, a "Vulture in classical Greek: perhaps an Egyptian word. 



Gyps fulvus. Geiffon Vulture. 



Vultur fulvus Hahlizl in Pallas' neue nordische Beytrage, 

 iv. 1783, p. 58 : N. Persia. 



Gyps fulvus (Gmel.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, p. 5; 

 B. O. TI. List, 1st ed. 1883, p 91; Saunders, Manual, 

 2nded. 1899, p. 311. 



Fulvus=i&wnj . 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. An 

 immature bird was captured alive near Cork Harbour in 

 1843. A second example is stated, by Saunders, to have been 

 seen soaring over Southampton Water. 



General Distribution. — The Griffon Vulture breeds in 

 southern Europe in suitable localities from the Spanish 

 Peninsula eastwards to the Caspian and southern Ural 

 Mountains ; also in north Africa from Morocco to Nubia 

 and Abyssinia, as well as in Arabia, Syria, and Asia Minor. 

 It is an occasional straggler to Normandy, Holland, Germany, 

 and Poland, In central Asia and northern India it is repre- 

 sented by allied forms. 



Genus NEOPHRON Savigny, Descript. de P]&gypte, i. 

 part i. 1809, pp. 68, 75. 



Type : JS . percnopterus (Linn.). 



Nedphr5n=vei^ptav, childish in mind, from veos and ^pr)v. But the name is 

 said to be given from the bird's haying the "front of the head naked" (Eyton, 

 ' Barer British Birds,' p. 3). 



