BIRDS OF NORTfl AND MIDDLE AMERICA 41 



Chester Inst. Arts and Sci., iv, 1902, 96 (Hanapton Falls, N. H., April 7, 

 1882, and May 15, 1898; near Concord, N. H., spring 1887).— Dawson, 

 Birds Ohio, 1903, 419, 652, pi. 48 (descr.; range; habits).— Deane, Auk, 

 xxii, 1905, 78 (Scarboro Beach, Maine, Aug. 5, 1904; Maine records).— 

 Morris, Auk, xxii, 1905, 413 (Beeket, w. Massachusetts, June 8, 1905).— 

 Stockard, Auk, xxii, 1905, 151 (breeding habits in Mississippi) .—Town- 

 send, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 3, 1905, 204 (Essex County, Mass.; occas. 

 vis. ; spec.) .—Anderson, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., xi, 1907, 241 (Iowa; hab- 

 its) .—Taverner and Swales, Wils. Bull., No. 60, 1907, 91 (Point Pelee, 

 Ontario, 2 specimens. May 20, 1906).— Widmann, Birds Missouri, 1907, 

 86.— Woodruff, Chicago Acad. Sci. Bull. 6, 1907, 90 (rare in Chicago area).— 

 Gibson, Auk, xxv, 1908, 315 (3 miles nw. of Schenectady, N. Y., June 1899).— 

 Knight, Birds Maine, 1908, 213 (rare straggler).- Leibelsperger, Auk, 

 xxv, 1908, 232 (Berks County, Pa., breeding).- Taverner, Auk, xxv, 1908, 

 328* (Point Pelee, Ontario); Birds Canada, 1934, 115 (Canada; genl.); Can. 

 Water Birds, 1939, 128 (field characters; Canada).— Johnston, Birds West 

 Virginia, 1923, 88 (West Virginia).— Pickens, Auk, xUv, 1927, 573 (nesting; 

 Anderson County, S. C.).— ScHtJz, Journ. fur Orn., Ixxv, 1927, 98, 142, in 

 text (powder downs).— Woods, Auk, xlvi, 1929, 386, in text (field charac- 

 ters).— Guthrie, Wils. Bull., xhv, 1932, 102, in text (eats snakes).— Baillie 

 and Harrington, Contr. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 8, pt. 1, 1936, 19 

 (Ontario; breed, rec). — Lincoln, Bird-Banding, vii, 1936, 39 (e. United 

 States).— Shortt and Waller, Contr. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 10, 

 1937, 15 (Lake St. Martin region, Manitoba; spec, sighted).— Snyder, 

 Trans. Royal Can. Inst., xxii, 1938, 183 (w. Rainy River distr., Ontario; 

 unmistakable ident. from live spec.).— Engels, Auk, Iviii, 1941, 63, 65, in 

 text and diagram (wing skeletal ratios).— Stewart Auk, Ix, 1943, 390 (Shen- 

 andoah Mountains; breeds).— Burleigh, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana 

 State Univ., No. 20, 1944, 357 (Gulf coast of Mississippi; not common).— 

 Lowery, Auk, Ixiii, 1946, 201 (trans-Gulf migr.). 



Catharista aura Gray, List Spec. Brit. Mus., pt. 1, Accip., ed. 2, 1848, 3, part; 

 Hand-list, i, 1869, 3, No. 18, part. 



Rhinogryphus aura Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North 

 Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 344, part; Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, x, 1874, 

 381 (Illinois); Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 1874, 23 (lower Wabash 

 Valley).— Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 445 (accidental; 

 Maine; Connecticut).— Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 120 (ne. 

 Illinois, rare vis.); ix, 1877, 42 (s. Illinois; very common), 50 (abund. in 

 Fox Prairie), 58 (Cairo, 111.; very numerous), 62 (Anna, Union County, not 

 common), 63 (10 miles w. of Anna), 65 (s. lUinois) .—Sharps, Linn. Soc. 

 London Journ. Zool., xiii, 1878, 21, map 6, part (geogr. range).— Langdon, 

 Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., 1879, 14 (Cincinnati, Ohio; common 

 summer res.).— Gurney, List Diurn. Birds Prey, 1884, 4, part; Cat. Birds 

 Prey, 1894, 17, part. 



Cathartes aura aura Swann, Synop. Accip., pt. 1, 1921, 3, part.— Oberholser, 

 Auk, xxxix, 1922, 247, part (name for northern form). 



Cathartes septentrionalis Wied, in Maximilian's Reise Nord-Amerika, 1, 1839, 

 162 (near New Harmony, Ind.); Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 119, in text (crit.). 



Cathartes aura septentrionalis Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xviii, Apr. 

 18, 1905, 125, part (crit.). — Bangs and Zappey, Amer. Nat., xxxix, Apr. 

 1905, 190, in text, part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Auk, xxv, 1908, 

 369;' Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 152, part; ed. 4, 1931, 61, part (distr.).— 

 Stone, Birds New Jersey, 1908, 156 (New Jersey; descr.; com- 



