LIST or DIUENAL BIRDS OF PREY. 



1 IS^omenclature, with references 

 to Sharpe's Cat. vol. i. 



Family 2. 



CATHAETID^'. 



Genus 1 . 

 SAECORHAMPHUS. 



Species 

 1 . gryphus ( Linn.) . . 

 p. 20. 



Eeferences 

 to J. H. G.'s 



Jsotes in the 

 'Ibis' (years 

 and pages). 



Miscellaneous References. 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens in 

 Norwich 

 Museum. 



1875, 01 



92 



Subspecies 

 magellanicus ? . . . . 



(/SVirtU'), p. 21 », footnote 



Humboldt et Bonpland, 

 Eecueil d'Observations, 

 vol. i. p. 26, pis. 8 & 9'. 



J. H. G. Cat. of Raptores in 

 Xor. Mus, pt. 1, p. 37. 



Sharpe, Journ. of Linn. Soc 

 Zool. vol. xiii. p. 18. 



Shufeldt, Contributions to 

 Anatomy of Birds, pi. 20. 



Species 

 sequatorialis * 



SlKirp ■. ]). 21. 



91 

 92 

 200 

 270 



!Sha-w, Mus. Lever. 

 i p. l,pl. 1. 



vol. 



CJs 



1 A very interesting article on the osteology of the Cathartidas wiU be found in 

 Dr. R. W! Shufeldt's "Contributions to the Anatomy of Birds" in the 12th Annual 

 Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey, p. 727. 



^ Here referred to the genus J'ultur. 



^ I am indebted to Dr. Dubois, of the Brussels Museum, for a copy of the following 

 memorandum, furnished to him by Mons. E. de Ville, Belgian Consul at Quito, on the 

 subject of Sarcorhamphiis (squaforialis : — 



"Le Sarcoramphus (squatorialis vit dans les Andes de la Republique de I'Equateur en 

 meme temps que le S. gryphus, mais il se tient toujours dans des altitudes differentes ; 

 c'est une espece parfaitemeut distincte et reconnue par les indigenes de la republique ; 

 il parait qu'il est plus petit que le gryphus et que sa couleur se rapproche de celle du 

 jeune de ce dernier." 



I cannot agree with Mr. Sharpe in referring to 8. (Bqiiatorialis the Condor figured by 

 MM. Eydoux and Souleyet (Voyage de la Bonite, Ois. pi. 2), as those naturalists con- 

 sidfred the bird they figured to be an immature S. gryphus, and there is nothing, I 

 think, to indicate that thej' were mistaken in this view. There is now (July 1883) a 

 Peruvian Condor living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, which has been there 

 since June 1877, and which is still in immature dress, unless it be, as it is labelled at 

 the Gardens, an example of S. cBquatorialis : the absence of any comb seems to denote 

 that it is a female bird ; but the iris instead of being garnet-coloured, as in the adult 

 female of S. gryphus, is dark brown, which I suspect is an indication that the bird is 

 not j-et really adult. 



