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THE EGYPTIAN NEOPHRON. 
Neophron percnopterus Savigny . 
PLATE I. 
Neophron percnopterus, Savigny, Ois. de FEgypte, pi. 16. 
— Catharte alimoche, Cathartes percnopterus, Temm. 
Man. i. p. 8 Egyptian Neophron, Selby's Illustrations, 
pi. A. — Omithol. Illust. by Sir W. Jardine and P. J. 
Selby, pi. XXXIII. (from the specimen killed in Somer- 
setshire.) — Gould’s Birds of Europe, adult and young. 
— Ey ton’s Barer British Birds . — Yarrell’s British Birds. 
Africa appears to be the stronghold of this 
Neophron. We have received it from the vicinity 
of the Cape of Good Hope. It is noted by various 
travellers to occur on the northern coasts, and on 
the shores opposed to Europe it is extremely 
abundant ; whence, crossing to Southern Europe, 
the frequency continues, but gradually decreases 
as we advance northward, and France and Bri- 
tain may be accounted the utmost limits to which 
wanderers occasionally stray. Notwithstanding, 
however, its great abundance in Spain and the 
opposite African shores, we have no record of its 
habits. Its general food appears to be carrion in 
all its forms, and in some parts it is protected on 
