CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS 
IN THE 
MUSEUM OP THE EAST-INDIA COMPANY. 
Class AVES. 
Ordo 1. RAPTORES, Vigors. 
ACCIPITRES, Linn. 
Fam. I. VULTURID^, Vigors. 
Subfam. VULTURIN^, Bonap. 
Genus Vultur, Moehr., A v. Gen. p. 50 (1752). Linn. S. N. 
(1756). 
tEgtpttjs, Sav., Descr. de VEgyp. H. N. l.p.7S (1809). 
PoLYPTEEYX, Hodgs. Gray, Zool. Misc. (1844), 81. 
1. VULTUR MONACHUS, Linn. 
Vultur monachus, Linn. S. I. p. 122. Shaw, Zool. 
YII. p. 19, t. 7. Lath., Hist. I. p. 30. Gould, 
Birds of Eur. t. 2. J. E . Gray Sf Rardw., III. Ind. 
Zool. I. t. 15, f. 2. Geo. Boh. Gray, Gen. of Birds, 
1. p. 5 ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 4. Hodgs., Cat. 
Nep. Birds, p. 38. Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. A. S. 
Beng. p. 32, C. L. Bonaparte, Conspectus Generum 
Avium, p. 11. 
Yultur cinereus, Gmel., S. J^. L. 1. p. 247. 
Vultur imperialis, Temm., Fl. Col. 426. 
Poljpteryx cupido, Hodgs. Gray, Zool. Misc. (1844), 
p. 81. 
Crested Black Vulture, Ediv., Birds, t. 290. 
Arabian Vulture, Lath. 
A. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
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