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Genus Otogyps, G. R. Gray. 



73. O. calvus (Tern., PL Col. 2). 



Syn. Vultur calvus, Scopoli. 



V. ponticerianus, Daudin. 

 Molld Gidh (' Priest Vulture'), H : Lal-mdta Shukuni 

 (' Red-headed Vulture'), Beng. 

 Hab. India generally : common. Tenasserim provinces. 



Subfam. GYPINiE. 

 Genus Gyps, Savigny. 



74. G. fulvus (PL Enl. 426). 

 Syn. Vultur fulvus, Gmelin. 



V. persicus, Pallas. 



V. vulgaris et V. percnopterus, Daudin, 



V. albicollis, Linderen. 



V. trincalosy Bechstein. 



V. indicus apud Jerdon, Catal. 



V. Kolbei (?), Daudin. 



Gyps vulgaris, Savigny. 



MahA deo ( f huge giant'), of Mahrattas ? 



Hab. Mountainous regions of the Old World : Himalaya ; not 

 well ascertained as an inhabitant of S. India. 



Remark. Ornithologists are much divided in opinion as to whether 

 at least two distinct, though closely affined, species exist in G. fulvus 

 and G. Kolbei of authors. Dr. A. Smith regards them as the same, 

 as does also Mr. G. R. Gray (in his second and improved edition of 

 the Catalogue of Raptor es in the British Museum (1848). Still more 

 recently, M. Degland also identifies them, remarking that—" Le 

 Chasse-fiente de Levaillant, et le V. Kolbei que M. Temminck lui 

 rapporte, mais que le Docteur Riippell regarde comme une espece 

 parfaitement distincte, me paraissent appartenir l'une et V autre au V. 

 fulvus ;" — the various figures referred to by different authors, accord- 

 ing to this naturalist, representing one and the same species in different 

 phases of plumage. On the other hand, M. Alfred Malherbe, in his 

 Faune Omithologique de la Sicilie, p. 20, refers to G. fulvus and G. 

 Kolbei as " espcces parfaitement distinct (ainsi que Ton peut s'en 

 convaincre en examinant les nombreux sujets donnes au museum 



