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Neophron

NEOPHRON.

Bill long and slender ; forecrown, sides of head and throat hare ; tail wedge-shaped, 14 feathers; valuable scavenger about towns and villages; eggs white or ochreous, richly blotched with dark red.

Neophron percnopterus percnopterus (L.). EGYPTIAN