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Paulista, xxii, 1938, 59 (distr.) ; xxiv, 1940, 228 (Pernambuco; common). — 

 Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxvii, 1939, 183 (Venezuela; common). — 

 Barnes and Phelps, Bol. Soc. Venez. Cienc. Nat., No. 46, 1940, 285 (Venezue- 

 la; Paraguana Peninsula, El Planch6n, Buena Vista). — Lehmann, Rev. Acad. 

 Colomb., iii, 1940, 459 (descr., col. fig.; nest and eggs; distr., Colombia). — 

 MuRPHEY, Auk, Ixii, 1945, 116 (Pearl Islands, Panama). — Street, Auk, 

 Ixiii, 1946, 370 (Trinidad). 



Cathartes aura (not Vullw aura Linnaeus) Spix, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 2. — Lesson, 

 Traits d'Orn., 1831, 28. 



Cathartes jota (not Vultur jota Molina) Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New- 

 York, ii, pt. 1, 1826, 23; Obs. Wilson's Amer. Ora., 1826, [239]; Contr. 

 Maclurian Lye, i, 1827, 10. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and 

 Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 46; ed. 2, 1840, 47.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., ii, 

 1834, 33, pi. 106; v, 1839, 345.— Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 iv, 1849, 161, part (crit.). 



Cathartes iota Bonaparte, Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 1. 



Catharista iota Gray, List Spec. Brit. Mus., pt. 1, Accip., ed. 2, 1848, 3. 



Percnopterus jota Descourtilz, Orn. Bres., 1854, pi. 1, 56, lower fig. 



Cathartes brasiJiensis Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 9 (South America; 

 "Antill" [es]). 



Coragyps brasiliensis Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., vi, 1854, 530. 



Cathartes atratus brasiliensis Schlegel, Mus. Pay-Bas, ii, No. 10, livr. 2, 1863, 

 3 (monogr.); No. 36, livr. 10, 1873, 139. 



Catharista atratus brasiliensis Hellmayr, Abh. K. B. Akad. Wiss., Kl. II, xxii, 

 No. 3, 1905, 567 (crit. as to Cathartes aura Spix). — Ihering and Ihering, 

 Av. Brazil, 1907, 81 (Rio Grande do Sul; Sao Paulo; Rio dc Janeiro, Pard; 

 Amazonas). — Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., xv, 1908, 289 (Cayenne). — Bertoni, 

 Fauna Paraguaya, 1913, 41 (upper Rio Parand). — Marelli, El Hornero, i, 

 1918, 77 (Curuzf Cuatid, Argentina). 



Catharista atrata brasiliensis Hartert and Venturi, Nov. Zool., xvi, 1909, 237 

 (Mocovi, Argentina; descr., eggs). — Dabbene, Orn. Argent., 1910, 239 

 (Rfo Negro, Patagonia; C6rdoba; Tucumdn; Oran; Salta; Chaco). 



Coragyps atratus brasiliensis Swann, Synop. Accip., pt. 1, 1921, 2 (South America). 

 — Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., xxviii, 1921, 174 (crit.) — Passler, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1922, 447 (Corondl, Chile; habits; freak color of nude parts). — Giacomelli, 

 El Hornero, iii, 1923, 78 (La Rioja, Argentina). — Seri£ and Smyth, El 

 Hornero, iii, 1923, 43 (Santa Elena, Argentina). — Snethlage, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1928, 673 (breeding habits, etc., ne. Brazil). — Brodkorb, Pap. Michigan 

 Acad. Sci., Arts and Letters, xxix, 1943, 119, in text (crit., tax.). 



Catharista urtibu brasiliensis Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xvi, 1905, 275 

 (Bonda, Santa Marta, Colombia).— Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 

 1910, 442 (Costa Rica; habits). — Cherrie, Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Sci., ii, 

 1916, 339 (Orinoco Valley, Venezuela). — Smith, Auk, xxxvii, 1920, 601 

 (Juan Vinas, Costa Rica; habits). 



Vultur foetidus Sundevall, Of v. Svenska Vet.- Akad. Forh., xxxi, 1874, No. 2, 

 38 (emendation of foetens). 



Genus CATHARTES Illiger 



Cathartes Illiger, Prodromus Orn., 1811, 236. (Type, as designated by Vigors, 



1825, Vultur aura Linnaeus.) 

 Gallinaza "Vieillot" Macleay (W. S.), Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xvi, pt. 1, 1829, 



15, footnote. (Type, by monotypy, G. aura Vieillot = Vultur aura Linnaeus.) 



