NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS, Savigny. 

 Egyptian Neophron. 



PLATE XXXIII. (Immature Plumage). 



Mas. — Adult. Albus, remigibus nigris, crista occipitali ; cauda albida cuneata. 



Juven. Collo, pectore, scapularibus tectricibusque brunneo-nigris, corpore 

 brunneo alboque vario. 



Neophron Percnopterus, Savig. Ois. de l'Egypt, p. 16. — Vigors, in Zool. Journ. v. ii. p. 380. 

 Vultur Percnopterus, Linn. Syst. i. p. 123. 7- — Lath. Ind. Ornith. i. p. 2. No. 3. — Shaw's Zool. 

 v. vii. p. 33. 



Alpine Vulture, Lath. Syn. i. p. 12. — Id. Supp. p. 3. 

 V. ^Egyptius, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 2, 3. var. B. 



Sacre d'Egypt, Buff. Ois. i. p. 167- 



Egyptian Vulture, Lath. Syn. i. p. 13. 

 V. leucocephalus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 2. No. 4. 



Vautour de Norvege, Buff. Ois. i. p. 164. 



Ash-coloured Vulture, Lath. Syn. i. p. 13. 

 V. Angolensis ? Lath. Ind. Ornith. i. p. 7- No. 17- — Gmel. Syst. i. p. 252. 



Angola Vulture? Perm. Tour in Wales, i. p. 307- PI. l6.'ed. Lond. 1810. — Lath. Syn. i. 

 p. 18 — Lath. Gen. Hist. i. 21. 12. 

 V. fuscus, Gmel. Syst. i. 248 — Lath. Ind. i. p. 5. No. 10. 



Vautour de Malte, Buff. Ois. i. p. 1 6l. 



Maltese Vulture, Lath. Syn. i. p. 15. — Lath. Gen. Orn. i. 22. 13. 

 V. Ginginianus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. i. p. 7. No. 16. 



Vautour de Gingi, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 184. 



Gingi Vulture, Lath. Syn. p. 7. — Sham's Zool. vol. vii. p. 32. — Lath. Gen. Hist. i. p. 27. 

 No. 21. PL 5. 

 Cathartes Percnopterus, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. i. p. 8. 



Le Percnoptere d'Egypte, Cuvier, Regn. Anim. i. p. 307- 



Vautour l'Ourigou, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afric. v. i. PL 14. 



Rachamah, or Poule de Faraone, Bruce s Travels, Append, p. 1 63. 



A his interesting species, which forms the type of the genus Neophron, is 

 an inhabitant of the warmer parts of the ancient world, and is one among 

 the few of the family of the Vulturidce which are met with in Europe. Hi- 

 therto its appearance in this division of the globe has been confined to the 

 meridional districts ; but we have now to record its appearance in Britain, 

 the individual from which our figure is taken having been killed upon the 



