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Above pale earthy brown; below whity 
brown; crop-patch dark brown; ruff 
white (Hume). 
Gyps indicus tenuivostris Hume (ex. Hodg- 
son MS.) Stray Feathers, vii., p. 326 (1878). 
[Khatmandoo, Nepal, type in Brit. Mus.] 
Himalayan Long-billed Vulture. 
[ = G. indicus indicus, ed. 1.] 
Wing ad. 590-600 mm.; head bare; ruff 
and upper parts dark brown with fulvous 
central streaks ; rump white ; below light 
brown with white streaks; crop-patch 
brown. 
Lower Himala- 
yas, Bengal, 
Assam, Burma ; 
Indo-Chinese 
countries ? 
Malay 
Peninsula ? 
Gen. IX. PSEUDOGYPS Sharpe (1873). 
Tail with 12 feathers. 
$13. Pseudogyps bengalensis (Gmel.), S.N., i., 
14. 
p. 245 (1788). [Bengal.] 
Indian White-backed Vulture. 
Size large; length 30 in.; wing ad. 557- 
608 mm.; above and crop-patch back 
ruff white, rather scanty; rump white ; 
below chocolate brown. 
Pseudogyps africanus africanus (Salvad.), 
Nat. Stor. R. Accad. Torin., 7th May, 1865, 
p. 133. [Sennar.] 
African White-backed Vulture. 
Wing ad. 557 mm. ; above and crop-patch 
dark brown; below pale brown, with 
yellowish-white shaft lines. 
Type by subs desig. (Sharpe 1874) Vultur bengalensis Gm. 
India, Indo- 
Chinese 
countries, 
Malay 
Peninsula. 
N.E. Africa, 
Khartoum to 
Abyssinia & 
Upper White 
Nile. 
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