62 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Tropical and Lower Austral zones from western Texas, Kansas, 

 Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Virginia, and southern Maryland 

 south through the Southern States to Mexico and Central America. Casual or 

 accidental in southwestern Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine, 

 Massachusetts, Indiana, southern Michigan, Ohio, New York, Arizona, and 

 Jamaica. [An allied race occurs in South America.] 



GEmis GYMNOGYPS Lesson. 



Gymnogyps Lesson, ficho du Monde Savant, ser. 2, VI, Dec. 8, 1842, 

 col. 1037. Type, by monotypy, Vitltur calif orniamis Shaw. 



Gymnogyps califomianus (Shaw). California Condor. [324.] 



Vultur califomianus Shaw, in Shaw and NoddeJr, Nat. Misc., IX, 1797, 

 text to pi. 301. (Coast of California = San Francisco or Monterey.) 



Range. — California west of the Great Basin and desert regions, and north- 

 western Lower California; formerly from Tehama County south along the 

 western slopes of the Sierra Nevada and throughout the Coast Ranges from 

 Humboldt County to the Mexican line; now restricted to the Coast Ranges 

 from San Benito County to Los Angeles County and the Sierra San Pedro 

 M^rtir of northwestern Lower California. Has been reported casually or 

 formerly from southeastern California, Oregon, and Washington. 



Suborder FALCONES. Kites, Hawks, Buzzards, 

 Eagles, Harriers, and Falcons. 



SuPERFAMiLY FALCONOIDEA. Hawks and Allies. 



Family ACCIPITRIIDAE. Kites, Hawks, and Allies. 



Subfamily ELANINAE. White-tailed Kites. 



Genus ELANUS Savigny. 



Elaniis Savigny, Descr. de I'Egypte, 1, 1809, 69, 97. Type, by monotypy, 

 Elanus caesius Savigny = Falco melano'pterus Daudin. 



Elanus leucurus majusculus Bangs and Penard. White-tailed Kite. [328.] 



Elanus leucurus majusculus Bangs and Penard, Proc. New Engl. Zool. 

 Club, VII, 46, Feb. 19, 1920. (San Rafael, California.) 



Range. — California west of the desert divides; from the upper Sacramento 

 Valley and Humboldt County south to the San Diegan district and northern 



