10 CINEREOUS VULTURE. 
In the natural order of arrangement the Vudltur 
Kolbvi of Daudin, Le Vautour Chassefiente of 'Temminck, 
would follow the bird just described. M. 'Temminck 
considered that the species was quite distinct, and 
always to be distinguished, at all ages, by the form of 
the feathers of the wings and the superior parts, which 
are all rounded at the end,—whilst these same feathers 
in the Griffon Vulture are long and pointed; the ruff 
is also not so long or so thick. The general colours 
of the plumage is often that of clear ‘café au lait,’ and 
according to age varied into a light or dark brown. 
The adult is nearly entirely of a whitish dove-colour, 
whilst the plumage of the adult Griffon is of a uniform 
light brown. ‘The crop of a dark brown; head and 
neck covered with a thick down. ‘Total length, four 
feet. 
Later writers, however, have considered that the 
Chassefiente of M. 'Temminck, is only a variety of the 
Griffon. 
Dr. Riippell, in reviewing the species of the genus 
Vultur of modern Ornithologists, in the “Annales des 
Sciences Naturelles,’ and the ‘Bulletin des Sciences 
Naturelles,” separates the Chassefiente from V. Kolbiu, 
and states that the latter is not found in Europe. 
Schlegel does not admit V. Kolb, but notices what he 
calls a race, or permanent variety of the Griffon, under 
the name of Vultur fulvous occidentalis; while Degland 
states his positive conviction that the differences given 
by Temminck, are those of age only; that the sup- 
posed V. Holbu, said to have been killed in Sardinia, 
and sent to M. Hardy, of Dieppe, by 'Temminck him- 
self, is a veritable adult Vultur Griffon; and that he 
has seen other skins in Paris, upon which a high 
price was fixed, in which he could find no characters 
