ACC1PITEES. 
VULTURIM. 
VULTURINA1. 
Genus NEOPHRON. 
Differs from the other genera of its family in having the bill long and slender, and the tip 
much curved ; in the cere being more than half the length of the bill, with the nostrils placed 
horizontally in it ; the head is bare only to the occiput ; the wings much pointed, the 3rd quill 
being the longest, the tail wedge-shaped, and the membranes uniting the toes ample. 
NEOPHEON GINGINIANUS. 
(THE LESSER SCAVENGER- VULTURE.) 
Vultur ginginianus. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 7 (1790); Daud. Traite, ii. p. 20 (1800). 
Neophron per cnopterus, Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1844, xiii. p. 115; Jerdon, B. of Ind i 
p. 12 ; id. Ibis, 1871, p. 236. 
Neophron ginginianus. Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 4; Hume, Rough Notes on Indian Raptores. 
i. p. 31 ; id. Nests and Eggs (Rough Draft), i. p. 9 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 18 ; Legge, 
Str. Feath. 1876, p. 195 (first record from Ceylon); Hume, Str. Feath. i. p. 150. 
Gingi Vulture of Latham; White Scavenger-Vulture , Jerdon, Birds of India. 
“ Pharaoh's Chicken;’ “ Pharaoh’s Hen,” “Dirt-bird,” popularly in India and Egypt. 
Kal-Murgh, Hind. Shikarees; Manju-Tiridi, Tam., lit. ‘ k Turmeric-stealer,” also Pittri-aedda 
lit. “ Dung-Kite.” 
Adult male and female Length to front of cere 21 '0 to 23-5 inches ; culmen from cere 1-35 ; wing 18 to 19, reaching 
to tip of tail ; tail 8-5 to 10-5 ; tarsus 3 ; mid toe 2-4 to 2-5, its claw (straight) 085 : bill gape to tip 2-4 
Ins brown; naked skm of the head, face, and throat yellow; cere yellow, bill yellowish horny; legs and feet flesh v 
yellow. ° 
Above, the neck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts, including the lesser primary-coverts, tail, entire under surface with the 
under wing-coverts white ; primaries and winglet green-black, the outer webs of the long quills from the notch 
to the base, and the entire web of the shorter quills pervaded with greyish ; secondaries dusky greenish black the 
outer webs towards the tips silvery whitish ; tertials brown, changing into whitish towards the tips. 
7 0Ur f '^ rd '! of J he / ear have the head P ar % clothed with short rudimentary feathers ; a broad blackish stripe passes 
WA- V, 6 f ° rehead 0ver tdle cent ™ of the crown > and spreads out on the occiput; the lores are divided bva narrow 
ac ish stripe, running forward to the cere; upper surface blackish brown, deepest on the back and sides of the 
nec and t le chest, and paling into dark brown on the scapulars and wing-coverts ; feathers of the back, scapulars 
anc wing cover s more or ess broadly tipped with fulvous; upper tail-coverts fulvous brown; tail pale brown,' 
ppe wi u vous grey , quills black, as in the adult, but the outer webs washed with brownish grey at the tip ; 
