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Genus NEOPHRON. — Savigny, 
Now generally adopted by ornithologists, used 
by Mr Vigors as one of the five forms which 
compose the family, and considered by that natu- 
ralist to connect the Raptores with the Natatores 
by the nearly similar form and shape of the bill 
to that of Tachypetes or the Fregate Pelicans, 
and also by the long and amply developed wings. 
It is evidently an aberrant form ; its members are 
comparatively weak, and the plumage of the neck 
runs farther upon the head than in the more 
typical species. Mr Swainson, in his “ Classifi- 
cation,” hints at the probability of Neophron 
being the Grallatorial genus of the vultures. 
Generic characters . — Bill lengthened, slender, 
straight, with a distinctly hooked tip ; max- 
illa without any angle ; cere extending half 
the length of the bill ; nostrils longitudinal, 
nearly parallel with the margins of the bill; 
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