92 VULTUaiDJJ. FALCONID^, 



Genus NEOPHRON, Savigny, Syst. Ois. de TEgypte, p. 8 



(1810). 



Neophron = veo^piov, childish in mind, from vkos + ippfjv. But the name 

 is said to have been given from the bird's having " the front of the head naked " 

 (Eyton, Rarer British Birds, p. 3). 



Neophron percnopterus. Egyptian Vulture. 

 Viiltur PercnopteruSj LinncBus, S. N. i. p. 123 (1766). 



Cathartes percnopterus^ Naum. i. p. 170. 



Neophron percnopterus, Macg. iii. p. 166; Gray, p. 2; Yarr. 

 ed. 2, i. p. 6 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 6 ; Newton, i. p. 6 ; Gould, 

 i. pi. 1; Harting, p. 83; Dresser, v. p. 391. 



Vultur percnopterus, Hewitson, p. 5. 



Egyptian Vulture^ Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 1. 



Percnoptertis = irepKvowTepos, dusky-winged, au epithet of, probably, 

 Gypcietus harhaius^ in Aristotle, H. A. ix. 32, 3 ; from TrepKX'os -j- Trrepov. 



An inhabitant of Southern Europe, Africa, and South- 

 western Asia ; an accidental visitor (only twice recorded) to 

 Great Britain. 



Family FALCONID^. 



Genus CIRCUS, Lacepede, Mem. de FInst. iii. p. 506 

 (1800). 



Circus = Ki'pKos, a kind of Hawk. Not akin to circus = a circle, but to 

 circia, p. 126, Kpi?(u = I laugh, Bng. ' laugh ;' of. Cormts, p. 68. 



Circus asruginosus. Marsh-Harrier. 



Falco seruginosusj Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 130 (1766). 



Falco rufus, Naum. i. p. 378. 



Circus seruginosus, Macg. iii. p. 382; Gray, p. 19; Yarr. 



ed. 2, i. p. 97; id. ed. 3, i. p. 104; Newton, i. p. 127; 



Gould, i. pis. 24 & 25 ; Harting, p. 7 ; Dresser, v. p. 415. 

 Circus rufus, Hewitson, p. 44. 

 The Marsh Harrier, Yarr. ed. 1^ i. p. 90. 



JEruffindsus = rusty, rust-coloured ; from mrugo = rust of copper, ms. 



