Descriptive List of the Common Birds 
with feathers, which stick out like the back 
hairs of a schoolboy. These are, if possible, 
rather dirtier-looking than the rest of the 
plumage, and frequently assume a rusty hue. 
Its bill is yellow, so are its naked face and its 
legs. As ‘Eha’ remarks: ‘It does not stand 
upright like the true vultures, but carries its 
body like a duck and steps like a recruit.’. . . 
It is a good flier, and when seen on the wing 
looks quite a respectable bird. The under 
parts of its wings appear pure white in the 
sunlight, and the black border gives them a 
finish.” 
Young scavenger vultures are sooty brown 
when they leave the nest and look like a 
different species. 
This creature feeds on human ordure and 
haunts the neighbourhood of latrines. It is 
known to Thomas Atkins as the Shawk. It is 
also called Pharaoh’s Chicken. (Illus. B. D., 
pp- 278 and 280.) 
In the Punjab it is replaced by a species 
which resembles it in all characters, differing 
only in being a little larger. This species is : 
145. Neophron percnopterus: The Egyptian 
Vulture, or Large White Scavenger Vulture. 
(F. IL, 98), J. 6), (+V) 
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