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(Veracruz: Las Vigas; occasionally); Ann. Carnegie Mus. xxviii, 1941, 170 

 (Mexico, Hidalgo, seen everywhere). — Sutton and Pettingill, Auk lix, 

 1942, 8 (Gomez Farias, sw. Tamaulipas). — Van TYNsand Trautman, Wils. 

 Bull., Ivii, 1945, 203 (Yucatdn; Chichen Itzd, migration, between Feb. 2, 1936 

 and March 25, 1936).— Wetmoee, Smiths. Misc. Coll., cvi. No. 1, 1946, 23 

 (Pearl Islands, Panama). — Miller, Auk, Ixiv, 1947, 354 (Upper Magdalena 

 Valley, Colombia; common — breeding). 



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

 Birds, iii, 1874, 344, part.— Lawrence, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 4, 1875, 44 

 (ubiquitous, sw. Mexico). — Sharpe, Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool., xiii, 1876, 21, 

 map 6, part (geogr. range). — Gurney, List Diurn. Birds Prey, 1884, 4, part; 

 Cat. Birds Prey, 1894, 17, part. 



Oenops aura Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 1874, 25, part (Jamaica; Mexico). — 

 BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878, 45 (Costa Rica). 



Cathartes aura aura Bangs and Zappey, Amer. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 190 (Isle of 

 Pines, Cuba; crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 3, 

 1910, 152; Auk, Ixiii, 1946, 429 (s. Florida and Texas). — Carriker, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 443 (Costa Rica). — Worthington, Ann. Carnegie 

 Mus., vii, 1911, 451 (Andros and Abaco Islands, Bahamas). — Todd, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., x, 1916, 191 (Isle of Pines; crit. habits). — Wetmoke, 

 U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 326, 1916, 30 (Puerto Rico; introduced?); U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 133, 1926, 87 (crit. syst.); New York Acad. Sci., ix, pt. 3, 1927, 

 318 (genl.; Puerto Rico); Condor, xxxvii, 1935, 176, in text (Comstock, Tex.; 

 prehist. bone; skel.; meas.); Smiths. Misc. Coll., cvi, No. 1, 1946, 24, in text 

 (Pearl Islands, Panama). — Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1918, 

 248 (Canal Zone; listed); Ixxxiv, 1932, 299 (Honduras; Cantarranas Omoa; 

 Ruatan Island). — Bangs and Kennaru, List Birds Jamaica, 1920, 45 (com- 

 mon resident). — Swann, Synop. Accip., pt. 1, 1921, 3, part (Mexico, Guate- 

 mala; Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica) ; pt. 3, 1922, addendum to pp. 3-4 (e. Mexico; 

 Guatemala; Cozumel Island; Cuba; Jamaica; Bahamas) ; Monogr. Birds Prey, 

 i, 1924, 11 (monogr.). — Todd and Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., xiv, 1922, 

 141 (Mamatoco, Santa Marta, Colombia; crit.). — Barbour, Mem. Nuttall 

 Orn. Club, No. 6, 1923, 43 (Cuba); No. 9, 1943, 31 (Cuba; abund.).— 

 Struthbrs, Auk, xl, 1923, 471 (Puerto Rico: Guanica VaUey; Anaisco; 

 Cartegena Lagoon). — Danforth, Wils. Bull., xl, 1928, 180 (near Santiago de 

 Cuba, Cuba); Auk, xlv, 1928, 482 (summer; Jamaica); Journ. Dept. Agr. 

 Puerto Rico, xv, 1931, 46 (Coamo Springs; Ponce; Tallaboa; Penuelas; Lajas; 

 Parguera, Puerto Rico) ; Journ. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, xix, 1935, 425 (Cuba, 

 abundant), 435 (Puerto Rico; introduced; restricted to sw. part of island). — 

 Sturgis, Field Book, Birds Panama Canal Zone, 1928, 122 (descr., habits, 

 Panama). — Austin, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixix, 1929, 372 (distr. Cayo 

 distr. Brit. Honduras). — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixix, 1929, 415 

 (Tela, Honduras); Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 190 (distr.) .—Darling- 

 ton, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxi, 1931, 364 (Rio Frio, Magdalena, Colom- 

 bia). — Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ixiv, 1932, 148 (distr., Guate- 

 mala); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxviii, 1935, 297 (Panama; common). — 

 Heath, Ibis, 1932, 482 (Barro Colorado, Panama). — Friedmann, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Washington, xlvi, 1933, 188 (distr.).— Rutten, Ardea, xxiii, 1934, 115 

 (Cuba).— VAN Tyne, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. 27, 1935, 16 

 (common at Uaxactan, Peten, Guatemala).— Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 

 60, 61, in text (West Indies; descr.; distr.), 413; Check List Birds West Indies, 

 1940, 20 (West Indies; distr.); ed. 2, 1945, 20 (West Indies; common).— 

 Brandt, Auk, liii, 1936, 325 (Brownsville, Tex.). — Aldrich, Sci. Publ. 



