Gen. III. CATHARISTA Vieill. (1816). 



Head without caruncle ; tail square. 



Plumage black : larger : wing 17.50 ; tail 8.50; 

 tarsus 3.35 in. 

 3 Catharista nrubu urubu* (Vieill.), Ois. d'Am., N. & Centra! 

 Sept., pi. xi. (1807). America, 



Black Vulture. Cuba, 



Jamaica. 



Smaller : Aving 16.30 ; tail 8 ; tarsus 3.10 in. 

 3a. (kitharidaurubu foetens (Wied), Beitr. Naturg. S. America. 

 Bras., iii.. p. 58(1830). 

 S. American Black Vulture. 



Gen. IV. CATHARTES Illiger (1811). 

 Tail rounded. 



Plumage black : larger : length 30 ; wing 21.70 ; 



tail 11.50 in. ; tarsus 2.90 in. 

 4, Cathartes aura anra (Linn.), S.N., i., p. 86 Tropical 



(1758). S. America 



S. American Turkey Vulture. from 



Colombia to 

 Chile & Brazil. 



Smaller : length 27 ; wing 21 ; tail 10 ; 

 tarsus 2.35 in. 

 4a. Cathartes aura septentrionalis (Wied), J.f.O.. N. America 

 1856. p. 119. (United 



N. American Turkey Vulture. States) S. to 



Honduras. 



TMedian wing coverts and secondaries very 

 distinctly shaded with whitish ashy. 

 4b Cathartes aura falklandicus (Sharpe), Ami. Falkland Is.. 

 N.H., (4). xi., p. 1 33 (1873). ^ Patagonia, 



Falkland Island Turkej^ Vulture. Chile. 



Head j-ellow ; " shafts of quills and tail- 

 feathers brown above, white below " [doubtful 

 form]. 

 4c. Cathartes aura perniger (Sharpe), Cat. Bds., Venezuela, 

 B.M., i., p. 25 (1874). Guiana, 



Venezuelan Turkey Vulture. N. Brazil, 



Peru. 



* Cathartes atrattis (Bartr.) of most authors. 



