NEOPHRON. — CIECUS. 137 



Neophron percnopterus. Egyptian Vultuhe. 



Vultur perenopterus Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 17£8, p. 87: 



Egypt. 



Neophron percnopterus (JLinn.) ; Sharpe, Gat. JBirds B. JiT. i. 

 1874, p. 17 ; £. O. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 92 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 313. 



Percnopterus=irfpicv67rT6po9, duaky-winged, an epithet of, probably, Gy- 

 pa'etus harbatus, in Aristotle, R. A. is. 32, 3 : from TrepKvos and TTTepon. 



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

 immature examples were seen (one o£ which was shot) at 

 Bridgwater Bay, Somerset, in Oct. 1825. An immature 

 bird was killed at Peldon, Essex, Sept. 1868. 



General Distribution. — The Egyptian Vulture breeds in 

 southern Europe from the mountains of Spain and Savoy 

 enstwards to the Caucasus ; also in the Canary Islands, 

 the Cape Verde Islands, and north Africa, from Morocco 

 to the Red sea, and thence down the eastern side to Cape 

 Colony ; also in south-western Asia from Asia Minor and 

 Palestine to north-west India. It is accidental in Norway 

 and Germany, and is represented in India by an allied form. 



Family FALCONID^. 

 Genus CIECUS Lac&pede, Tableaux Ois. 1799, p. 4. 

 Type : C. ceruginosus Linn. 



Gircus=KipKiis, a kind of Hawk. 



Circus seruginosus. Maesh-Harrier. 



FalCO seruginosus Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 91 : 



Sweden. 



Circus seruginosus (Zinn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, 

 p. 69 ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 92 ; Saunders, Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 315. 



.SrM5(imos«s= rusty, rust-eoloured ; from asrM5io=rust of copper, ses. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Scarce Resident. In 



