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the following notes of this bird:—“Specimens from 
Algeria and the Caucasus are identical with the Euro- 
pean. Those from Abyssinia differ from the above in 
having the lower part of the tarsus bare of feathers: 
this race is called G. meridionalis, and is said to be 
also found in Arabia and the Cape of Good Hope. 
Specimens from the Himalaya mountains do not differ 
from those of Europe, Algeria, and the Caucasus, 
when adult, but the young birds in the Himalaya have 
the peculiarity of a row of small feathers running 
down the outer side of the middle toe, half way down 
the first jomt. ‘This disappears when the bird becomes 
adult. 
I do not know whether this peculiarity also occurs 
in specimens from the Altaic range, and from China. 
In the Himalayas and Abyssinia it appears to be 
much more familiar in its habits than in Europe, 
approaching some of the Vultures in this respect, 
probably from being less persecuted.” 
The adult male and female have the body above of 
a greyish brown, with a white or yellow line upon the 
middle of a great number of the feathers; lower part 
of the body white, tinged with a more or less lively 
red; top of the head white, bounded at the back by a 
bluish line, which surrounds the eyes, and goes on 
gradually increasing till it is lost among the hair which 
coyers the cere and the nostrils; neck of a very light 
red. Tail feathers ash brown, with the shafts white; 
tail very much graduated. Beak black; iris white, 
inclined to yellow; free edge of the eyelids red; toes 
livid. The female has the hairs of the chin and the 
tibial feathers shorter than the male and stronger. 
Young bird, first year dark brown, approaching to 
black on the neck, and to reddish grey on the chest 
