THE EGYPTIAN VULTURE 
Neophron percnopterus 
Racham, Arabic 
White all over body, wings black, a curious fringe of long 
feathers round the head ; these sometimes get stained a more 
or less strong yellow ; bare parts round eye and beak, yellow. 
Legs pinky, eyes carmine red, but Shelley says they do not 
get the full red eye till their fourth year. 
Entire length, 27 inches. 
Tuts vulture, as shown by the above description, 
is markedly different from the great Griffon Vul- 
ture, and there can be no possible mistake in re- 
cognising it. From the tail-piece, which is taken 
from a painting of one on the inside of a wooden 
outside coffin casing, one can easily see the pecu- 
liarities of this bird ; and at Deir-el-Bahari there are 
many painted examples showing the bird more or less 
in its natural colours, the bright yellow of the bill is 
shown, and the dark wings are rendered in a dull 
green. Why they should render one colour by 
another seems strange, but here again we must 
wait till Mr. Howard Carter gives us his explana- 
tion of this and the many other points he is still 
patiently working out. The wonderful way in 
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