10 CINEREOUS VULTURE. 



In the natural order of arrangement the Vultur 

 kolbii of Daudin, Le Vautour Chassefiente of Temminck, 

 would follow the bird just described. M. Temminck 

 considered that the species was quite distinct, and 

 always to be distinguished, at all ages, by the form of 

 the feathers of the wings and the superior parts, which 

 are all rounded at the end, — whilst these same feathers 

 in the Griffon Vulture are long and pointed; the ruff 

 is also not so long or so thick. The general colours 

 of the plumage is often that of clear f cafe au lait,' and 

 according to age varied into a light or dark brown. 

 The adult is nearly entirely of a whitish dove-colour, 

 whilst the plumage of the adult Griffon is of a uniform 

 light brown. The crop of a dark brown; head and 

 neck covered with a thick down. Total length, four 

 feet. 



Later writers, however, have considered that the 

 Chassefiente of M. Temminck, is only a variety of the 

 Griffon. 



Dr. Ituppell, in reviewing the species of the genus 

 Vultur of modern Ornithologists, in the "Annales des 

 Sciences jSTaturelles," and the "Bulletin des Sciences 

 ]STaturelles," separates the Chassefiente from V. kolbii, 

 and states that the latter is not found in Europe. 

 Schlegel does not admit V. kolbii, but notices what he 

 calls a race, or permanent variety of the Griffon, under 

 tile name of Vultur fulvus occidentalis; while Degland 

 states his positive conviction that the differences given 

 by Temminck are those of age only; that the sup- 

 posed V. Jcolbii, said to have been killed in Sardinia, 

 and sent to M. Hardy, of Dieppe, by Temminck him- 

 self, is a. veritable adult Vultur griffon; and that he 

 has seen other skins in Paris, upon which a high 

 price was fixed, in which he could find no characters 



