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VULTURINiE. 



Otogyps.* 



Characters in common with Yultur ; but the head and neck are bare of feathers or down, and the sides 

 of the latter are furnished with lengthened wattles from beneath each ear. 



I. O. auricularis (Daud.) Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. t. 9. — Vultur 

 segyptius Temm. PI. col. 407. ; Vultur nubicus Ham. Smith, Griff. 

 An. Kingd. pi. 



2. O. calvus (Scop.) Sonn. Voy. Ind. t. 104. — Vultur pontice- 

 rianus Gmel. PI. col. 2., Ann. du Mus. 1. t. 20. 



Gyps Sav.f 



Bill lengthened, with the culmen gradually hooked to the tip and rounded ; the sides rather swollen ; 

 the nostrils oblong-ovate and oblique. The other characters are like those of Vultur ; but the head and 

 neck are clothed with short down, and the nape ornamented with a ruff of lanceolate feathers or of 

 lengthened downy feathers. 



1. G. fulvus (Gmel.) PI. enl. 426. — Vultur leucocephalus 

 Meyer ; Vultur Percnopterus Pall. ; Vultur Kolbii Daud., Le Vaill. 

 Ois. d'Afr. t. 10., Riipp. Atlas, t. 32.; Gyps vulgaris Savig. ; 

 Vultur indicus Temm. PI. col. 26. 



2. G. bengalensis (Gmel.) Lath. Syn. pi. 1. (young), Gray, 111. 



* Proposed in 1841 (List of Gen. of Birds, p. 2.). 



Ind. Zool. pi. . — Vultur Chaugoun Baud. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. 

 t. 11. (adult); Vultur leuconotus Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. pi. .; 

 ? Vultur indicus Scop. Sonn. Voy. Ind. t. 105. 

 3. G. tenuirostris (Hodgs.). 



t Established by Savigny (Hist, de tEgypte, Zool. 1. 71.) in 1809. 



June, 1844. 



