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^Neophron pileatus, (Burchell ; N. carunculatus, A. Smith ; Perc- 

 nopterus niger, Lesson ; Cathartes monachus, Temminck). Abyssinia. 



*Cathartes aura, (L.) Chili. 

 Bubo virginianus, (L.) N. Amei^ica. 



# Promerops cyanomelas, Cuvier. Abyssinia. 

 Halcyon senegalensis, (L.) Nubia. 



# Merops c^ruleocephalus, Latham. Abyssinia. 



*M. Lamarcki, Cuvier (M. viridis apud Eiippell). Two specimens, 

 from Abyssinia. This differs from the Indian M. viridis, L., in having 

 much more ferruginous on the wings, extending across both webs of the 

 primaries and secondaries ; and the throat is yellowish-green, tinged with 

 ferruginous, having scarcely a trace of verditer except on its extreme 



the clothing plumes generally are elongated and lanceolate at all ages ; and those 

 covering the craw are pale or whitish. It is also a larger bird than the others ; 

 the closed wing of a young Nepalese specimen measuring 33 inches. 



In a fine adult of G. occidentalis, from Algeria, the closed wing measures 

 but 27 inches. The clothing feathers are much less acuminate than in G. fulvus, 

 and resemble those of G. Ruppelli in form ; but their colour is throughout dull 

 pale isabelline, slightly tinged with ashy excepting round the margins ; and the 

 hue of those covering the craw is much darker. 



In the adult G. Ruppelli, the whole plumage is fuscous, with strongly contrast- 

 ing whitish margins more or less broad, imparting a handsome variegated appear- 

 ance, especially to the scapularies and coverts of the wings and tail : feathers 

 covering the craw blackish ; and those forming the white ruff shorter and more 

 dense than in either of the preceding. Length of wing 24 inches. 



As we have all ages of the affined G. indicus for reference, we observe that its 

 feathers are not more or less acuminate according to age ; and in the young of 

 this species and of G. fulvus (and doubtless of the others also), the feathers of 

 the upper-parts have a medial pale streak, but not the broad whitish margius which 

 distinguish the adults of G. Ruppelli. 



In G. Ruppelli, the beak is somewhat broader in proportion to its length than 

 in G. fulvus and G. occidentalis, resembling that of G. bengalensis except 

 in having its ceral portion more prolonged backwards ; while G. indicus has a 

 comparatively slender bill, especially as viewed laterally, with its ceral portion 

 remarkably elongated. In a particularly fine adult of G. indicus, the closed wing 

 measures 24 £ in. 



Good Himalayan specimens (skins) of the adult and young of G. fulvus, with 

 skeleton ; and skeleton also of Vultur monachus, the ' Great Black Vulture' of 

 the Himalaya; and of the Gvpaetos, popularly mis-culled ■ Golden Eagle' by 

 English residents ;— would be very thankfully received for the Society's museum. 



