ORDER FALCONIFORMES. 61 



Gulf coasts from Maine to Florida and Texas, on the Pacific coast from south- 

 eastern Alaska to southern Lower California, and in the interior from the Great 

 Lakes southward; also in Europe, northern Africa, the Black and Caspian seas, 

 Persia, northwestern India, China, and Japan. Casual in Bermuda, Cuba, and 

 Hawaii. 



Order FALCONIFORMES. Birds of Prey. 



Suborder CATHARTAE. American 

 Vultures. 



Family CATHARTIDAE. American Vultures. 



Genus CATHARTES Illiger. 



Caihartes Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, 236. Type, by subs, desig., Vultur 

 aura Linnaeus (Vigors, 1825) . 



Cathartes aura septentrionalis Wied. Turkey Vulture. [325.] 



Caihartes septentrionalis Wied, Reise Nord-Amer., I, 1839, 162. (near 

 New Harmony, Indiana.) 



Range. — Austral zones (chiefly) from southern British Columbia, central 

 Alberta, Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, Wisconsin, Michigan, northern 

 Minnesota, southern Ontario, central New York, Connecticut, and New 

 Jersey south to southern Lower California, the Gulf coast of the United States, 

 and northern Mexico, breeding north at least to southern Michigan, north- 

 ern Minnesota, southeastern New York, and Connecticut. Winters throughout 

 most of its regular range on the Atlantic slope but not north of the Ohio 

 Valley, Nebraska, and California. Casual in northern Ontario, New England 

 (north to New Hampshire and Maine), New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. 

 [Closely related races occur in southern Mexico, Central and South America, 

 and in Cuba.] 



Genus CORAGYPS Le Maout. 



Coragyps "Geoffroy MS." Le Maout, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux, 1853, 57, 66. 

 Type, by monotypy, Vultur atratus Wilson = Vultur atratus Meyer. 



Coragyps atratus atratus (Meyer). Black Vulture, [326.] 



Vultur atratus "Bartram," F. A. A. Meyer, Zool. Annalen, I, 1794, 290. 

 Basen on Vultur atratus, the black vulture or carrion crow Bartram, 

 Travels, 289. (in America boreali circum fluvium Sti. Johannis = 

 St. Johns River, Florida.) 



