*T181. 
18la. 
181b. 
106 
Gypaétus barbatus grandis Storr, Alpen- 
reise vom Jahr 1781, p. 69 (1784). [Switzer- 
land.] 
Bearded Vulture. 
Wing average (Alps) ¢ 825, 2 861 ; (Spain) 
790-812, (Sardinia) 785-788, (Greece) 784- 
795, (Himalayas) 813-843 mm.; head 
white, a line each side of crown and another 
below ear black; general plumage above 
black with white shafts; wings and tail 
brown and scapulars washed with ochrace- 
ous brown; below rusty yellow; tarsus 
feathered to the toes. Immature: head, 
neck and throat brownish-black; above 
brown ; below pale brownish buff. 
Gypaétus barbatus barbatus (Linn.) S.N. 1, 
p. 87 (1758). [Africa, ex. Edwards = 
Santa Cruz, near Oran, apud Hartert. ] 
Atlas Bearded Vulture. 
Smaller ; wing ¢ 740-760, 2 750-770 mm. ; 
below warmer tawny reddish. 
Gypaétus barbatus meridionalis, Keys. and 
Blas., Wirbelt. Europ. p. xxviii. (1840). 
[S. Africa.) 
Southern Bearded Vulture. 
Wing 720-775 mm. ; cheeks white without 
the black markings ; tarsus bare towards 
lower part. 
SUB. FAM. V. AQUILINE. 
on 
Outer toe connected to middle toe by membrane ; 
tibia much longer than tarsus, which is reticulated 
on hinder aspect and generally more or less clothed 
Spain, 
Mediterranean 
Islands, Alps 
and S.E. Europe 
Central Asia, 
Himalayas, 
N. China ; 
S. Arabia 
(Yemen) ? 
Atlas Mtns., 
N. Africa 
(Marocco, 
Algeria, 
Tunisia). 
S, Africar: 
Mountains of 
Abyssinia. 
