AFES. U85 



Class AVES. 



Oedeb BAPTOBES. 

 Family VULTUEID^. 



I. Gyps Rueppelli, Bp. 



Vultur Kolbii, Riipp. Atlas, fig. 32, nee Daudin. 



F. Buppelli, Bp. Eev. and Mag. Zool. 1850, p. 477. — Brehm, 



Naumannia, 1852, Pt. II. p. 44. 

 Cfyps fuhms, avis adulta, Riipp. Syst. Uebers., No. 4. 

 O. magnificus, V. Miill., Descr. Nouv. Ois. d'Afr., Tab. V. 

 Q. Buppelli, V. Heugl., Ornith. N. O. Africa's, No. 2, p. 5. 



The older birds of this species may always be dis- 

 tinguished by the broad silver-grey edgings to the 

 back feathers, and especially to the wing-coverts. So 

 marked is this that some birds have a very handsome 

 mottled appearance, the grey even predominating. I 

 unfortunately could not collect many specimens, and not 

 being aware at the time of the interest attaching to this 

 particular race I did not especially notice its distribution 

 relatively to Gyps fulvus. I am, however, of opinion 

 that the great majority at least of the birds which are 

 met with on the Abyssinian highlands belong to the 

 present species. I find a note in my field-book men- 



