428 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Palaeogyps prodromus Wetmore. 



Palaeogyps ■prodromus Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., VII, 

 No. 2, July 15, 1927, 5, figs. 5-14. 



Oligocene (Chadron) : Weld County, Colorado. 



Genus GYMNOGYPS Lesson. 



Gyinnogyps Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, ser. 2, VI, Dec. 8, 1842, col. 

 1037. Type, by monotypy, Vultur californianus Shaw. 



Gymnogyps californianus (Shaw). California Condor. 



Vultur californianus Shaw, in Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc., IX, 1797, 

 text to pi. 301. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Sarasota and Seminole Field, 

 Florida; Carpinteria and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Gymnogyps amplus Miller. 



Gymnogyps amplus L. H. Miller, Univ. Calif. Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., 

 VI, No. 16, Oct. 28, 1911, 390, fig. 2. 



Pleistocene: Samwel Cave, Shasta County, California. 



Genus VULTUR Linnaeus. 



Vultur Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, 86. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Vultur gryphus Linnaeus (Allen, 1907). 



Vultur clarki (Miller). 



Sarcorhamphus clarki L. H. Miller, Univ. Calif. Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., 

 VI, No. 1, Nov. 28, 1910, 11, figs. 3a, 36. 



Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus SARCORAMPHUS Dumeril. 



Sarcoramphus Dumeril, Zool. Analytique, 1806, 32. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Vultur papa Linnaeus (Froriep, 1806). 



Sarcordmphus kemensis (Miller), 



Vultur kemensis L. H. Miller, Condor, XXXIII, March 18, 1931, 70, 

 fig. 16. 



Pliocene: Pozo Creek, Kern River Divide, Kern County, about nine miles 

 northeast of Bakersfield, California. 



