9. CATHiRISTES. 



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tail-coverts, and entire tail black ; chest bare ; rest of the under 

 surface white, more or less tinged -sdth cream-colour ; biU yellowish 

 horn-colour, dark brown at base ; feet black, tinged with grey ; iris 

 pure white. Total length 27 inches, culmen from anterior edge of 

 caruncle 24, wing 19-5, taU 10, tarsus in skeleton 3-65, middle toe 

 in skeleton 3'8. 



Young female. Black, with obsolete brownish margins to the 

 feathers, more distinct on the wing-coverts ; plumes round the neek 

 also black ; under surface of the body white ; upper neck bare aU 

 round, as also the centre of the throat ; no folds of skin on side of 

 face ; crown (except a bare patch on the hinder part) and sides of 

 the face, as well as a line running down the nape, covered with 

 bristly hair, greyish in colour, but black on the latter; over the 

 nostril a small single upright caruncle ; iris yellowish grey. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. d ad. sk. 



b. (S ad. St. 



c. 2 inuu- St. 



d. Head. 



e. Skeleton. 



f. Skeleton. 

 >. Skiill. 



ft. Sternum. 



S. America. 

 Mexico. 

 British Guiana. 

 E. Amazon. 



The Earl of Derby [P.]. 



Purchased. . 



Sir R. Schomburgk [P.]. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



Purchased. 



Zool. Society of London. 



Admiral Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



9. CATHAEISTES. 



Type. 



Catharista, Vieill. Analyse, p. 21 (1816) C. atratus. 



Cathartes, Gh-ai/, Gen. of B. i. p. 4 (1844, nee lUig.), et auct. 



recent. 

 Coragyps, Bp. Rev. et Miig. de Zool. 1854, p. 530 C. atratus. 



Wing of Ciitharistes atratus. 



Range. The whole of South America as far as 40° S. lat., scarcely 

 so far on the western coast; the whole of Central America, extend- 

 ing through the southern and eastern United States nearly up to 

 the 40th parallel, but not seen on the Pacific coast. 



