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Above pale earthy brown ; below whity 

 brown ; crop-patch dark brown ; ruff 

 white (Hume). 



12a. Gyps indicus tenuirostris Hume (ex. Hodg- 

 son MS.) Stray Feathers, vii., p. 326 (1878). 

 [Khatmandoo, Nepal, type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Himalayan Long-billed Vulture. 

 [= G. indicus indicus, ed. 1.] 



Wing ad. 590-600 mm. ; head bare ; ruff 

 and upper parts dark brown with fulvous 

 central streaks ; rump white ; below light 

 brown with white streaks ; crop-patch 

 brown. 



Lower Himala- 

 yas, Bengal, 

 Assam, Burma ; 

 Indo-Chinese 

 countries ? 

 Malay 

 Peninsula ? 



Gen. IX. PSEUDOGYPS Sharpe (1873). 

 Type by subs desig. (Sharpe 1874) Vultur bengalensis Gm. 



Tail with 12 feathers. 



■fl3. Pseudogyps bengalensis (Gmel.) 

 p. 245 (1788). [Bengal.] 

 Indian White-backed Vulture. 



S.N. 



Size large ; length 30 in. ; wing ad. 557- 

 608 mm. ; above and crop-patch back 

 ruff white, rather scanty ; rump white ; 

 below chocolate brown. 



India, Indo- 

 Chinese 

 countries, 

 Malay 

 Peninsula. 



14. Pseudogyps africamis africanus (Salvad.), 

 Nat. St or. R. Accad. Torin., 7th May, 1865, 

 p. 133. [Sennar.] 

 African White-backed Vulture. 



Wing ad. 557 mm. ; above and crop-patch 

 dark brown ; below pale brown, with 

 yellowish-white shaft lines. 



N.E. Africa, 

 Khartoum to 

 Abyssinia & 

 Upper White 

 Nile. 



