22 VULTUEID^. 



8. CATHARTES. „ 



Type. 



Cathartes, Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Av. p. 236 (1811) . . C. papa. 



Gypagus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 21 (1816) C. papa. 



Gj'parchus, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 235 (1842) C. papa. 



Range. S. America, from Brazil (a little below 20° S. lat.), north- 

 wards to Mexico ; Trinidad. 



1. Cathartes papa*. 



The King of the Vultures, Edic. N. H. Birds, i. p. 2 (1743). 

 Le Roi des Vautom-s, Briss. Oni. i. p. 470, pi. xxx^-i. (1760). 

 Vultur papa, Linn. S. N. i. p. 122 (1766) ; Daud. Traite, ii. p. 9, pi. 1 



(1800). 

 L'Urubii, ou Roi des Vautours de Cayenne, Buff. PI. Enl. i. pi. 428 



(1770). 

 Le Roi des Yautoiu-s varie, Levadl. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 59, pi. 13 (1799). 

 Cathartes papa, Illiqer, Prodr. p. 236 (1811) ; Spi.v, Av. Bras. p. 1, 



tab. 1 (1824) ; 3/a.r. Beitr. hi. p. 56 (1830) ; Xutt. Man. i. p. 39 



(1840) ; Nitz.sch, Pten/l. p. 72 (1840) ; Schl. Mas. P.-B.\ult. p. 1 



(1862). 

 Gypagus papa, Vieill. JV. Diet, xxxvi. p. 456 (1819) ; Vieill. et OudaH, 



Gal. des Ois. i. p. 11, pi. 3 (1825). 

 Sarcorhamphus papa, Oray^ Gen. of B. i. p. 4 (1844) ; Cass. Cat. Vtdt. 



Phil. Mm. p. 4 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 9 (1850) ; Burm. Th. Bras. 



ii. p. 28 (1855) ; Cass. B. Calif, p. 61 (1855) ; Leot. Ois. Trinid. 



p. 1 (1866) ; Coues, Pr. Phil. Acad. 1866, p. 49 ; Pek. Orn. Bras. 



p. 1 (1871). 

 Gj'parchus papa, Sol. ^- Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 214 ; Gurney, Cat. Rapt. 



B. Noriv. Mm. p. 35 (1864). 



Adult male. Head and neck hare, the sides of the face, and espe- 

 cially the region of the ear, much crinkled ; in front of the nostril 

 an erect fleshy caruncle ; fore part of head covered -with greyish 

 black hairy bristles ; on each side of the lower mandible and under 

 the eye a profusion of black hair-Uke bristles running into a line 

 below the auricular region ; another broad line "of black bristles 

 running from the hinder part of each eye, uniting on the occiput, 

 and there separating on each side of the nuchal caruncle ; no distinct 

 niff; round the neck the feathers deep slaty grey, meeting on the 

 fore neck, inclining to black on the hind neck ; interscapulary re- 

 gion, scapulars, lesser and median wing-coverts cream-colour, almost 

 amounting to pale fawn ; greater wing-coverts black, rather broadly 

 margined externally with ashy brown ; inner secondaries quite black, 

 with somewhat of a greenish tinge ; lower back and rump, upper 



* Cathartes sacer. 



Vultur sacra, Barfr. Trav. N. # S. Carol. SfC. p. 150 (1791). 

 Sarcoramphus sacer, Cass. B. Calif, p. 59 (1855). 



This species, not met with Bince Bartram's time, still remains undiseoTered. 

 It is closely allied to C. papa, from which it appears to differ chiefly in its ichife 

 tail. No bird answering to Bartram's description has been found in the locality. 

 (6/. ,Ulen, Bull. Harv. Coll. ii. p. .313, 1871.) 



