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*|181. Gypaetus barbatus grandis Storr, Alpen- 

 reise vom Jahr 1781, p. 69 (1784). [Switzer- 

 land.] 

 Bearded Vulture. 



Wing average (Alps) c? 825, ? 861 ; (Spain) 

 790-812, (Sardinia) 785-788, (Greece) 784- 

 795, (Himalayas) 813-843 mm. ; head 

 white, a line each side of crown and another 

 below ear black ; general plumage above 

 black with white shafts ; wings and tail 

 brown and scapulars washed with ochrace- 

 ous brown ; below rusty yellow ; tarsus 

 feathered to the toes. Immature : head, 

 neck and throat brownish-black ; above 

 brown ; below pale brownish buff. 



Spain, 



Mediterranean 

 Islands, Alps 

 and S.E. Europe 

 Central Asia, 

 Himalayas, 

 N. China ; 

 S. Arabia 

 (Yemen) ? 



181a. Gypaetus barbatus barbatus (Linn.) S.N. 1, 

 p. 87 (1758). [Africa, ex. Edwards = 

 Santa Cruz, near Oran, apud Hartert.J 

 Atlas Bearded Vulture. 



Smaller ; wing 3 740-760, ? 750-770 mm. ; 

 below warmer tawny reddish. 



Atlas Mtns., 

 N. Africa 

 (Marocco, 

 Algeria, 

 Tunisia). 



181b. Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis, Keys, and S. Africa ; 



Bias., Wirbelt. Eur op. p. xxviji. (1840). Mountains of 



[S. Africa.] Abyssinia. 

 Southern Bearded Vulture. 



Wing 720-775 mm. ; cheeks white without 

 the black markings ; tarsus bare towards 

 lower part. 



SUB. FAM. V. AQUILIN/E. 



Outer toe connected to middle toe by membrane ; 

 tibia much longer than tarsus, which is reticulated 

 on hinder aspect and generally more or less clothed 



