1850.] Conspectus of the Ornithology of India. 505 



V. ginginianus et V. albus, Daudin. 



V. meleagris, Pallas. 



V.fuscus, Boddaert. 



V. leucocephalus, Brisson. 



Percnopterus cegyptiacus, Stephens. 



Sungra, or Sundd, ('sharp-scented/) Sindh (Burnes). 

 Hab. "Warmer regions of Europe, Asia, and Africa : abundant 

 on the plains of India ; rare and accidental below the tideway of the 

 rivers in Lower Bengal. A summer visitant in Afghanistan. 



Fam. GYPAETIDiE. 



Genus Gypaetos, Storr. 



78. G. hemachalanus, Hutton, J. A. S. Ill, 522. 



G. harbatus orientalis (?), Schlegel and Pr. Bonap. 



Urgulj Masuri (Hutton) : Kajir, or Fumai, Kabul 

 (Burnes). Golden Eagle of English residents in 

 the Himalaya. 



Hab. Himalaya ; Afghanistan. 

 Remark. There appear to be three closely affined species or races 

 of Lammergeyers, namely G. harbatus of the Alps and higher moun* 

 tains of S. E. Europe and probably Asia Minor, — G. meridionalis , 

 Brehm, of N. Africa and found also on the Pyrenees and in Sardinia, 

 — and the present Asiatic race distinguished by a pectoral band, in 

 general conspicuously developed, and which would appear never to 

 occur in the others. G. meridionalis is recognized as a permanent 

 variety of G. barbatus by Dr. Schlegel, equivalent to his distinction of 

 Circus Sykesii from Circus cinerascens ; but M. Degland regards it as 

 insufficiently distinguished, it being merely of inferior dimensions and 

 less robust. 



however, immediately took the alarm, but without going away, and would not be 

 enticed near enough to allow of a second capture. It is remarkable that during 

 some years these Vultures come much more into the town of Calcutta than in other 

 years ; for, in general, they are little seen except about the abattoirs and place of 

 cremation. 



