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ElEMBNTS OF OENITHOLOGT. 



on both sides of the Mediterranean, and extends to India and 

 China. 



It is recorded that an Egyptian Vulture {Neophron percno- 

 ^pterus) was shot in Somersetshire in the year 1825. When 

 found it was busy eating the carcass of a sheep, and was so 

 gorged that it could not, or would not, fly far at a time. 



Fig. 138. 



The King Vulture {Cathartespupaj. 



There are fully sixteen species of Vultures, forming a group 

 which is peculiar to the Old World, where they range over its 

 warmer regions, save the Malay islands, Ceylon, Madagascar, 

 and Australia. 



In the New World there are nine other kinds of Vultures 

 forming a distinct group. Of these the Condor (Sarcorhamph-us 



