24 VTTLTURID^. 



1. Catharistes atratus *. 



Vautour du Bresil, Buff. PI. Enl. i. pi. 187 (1770). 



Vultur atratus, Bartram, Trav. N. Sr S. Carol. 4-c. p. 289 (1791) ; 

 Wils. Am. Oni. ix. p. 104, pi. Ixxv. tig. 2 (1814). 



Vultur aura, Daiid. TraiU, ii. p. 19 (1800, 7iec L.). 



Iribii, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 19 (1802). 



Vultur urubu, rieiU. Ois. (TArn. Sept. pi. 11 (1807). 



Catharista urubu, Vieill. N. Did. xii. p. 401 (1817). 



Catbartes fcteus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 6.3 (1823, ex Illiger, Mus. 

 Berol.) ; Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iii. Abtb. i. p. .58 (1830) ; Grnij, 

 Gen. ofB. i. p. 4 (1844) ; Tschudi^- Cab. F. P. Vog. p. 15 (1845); 

 Cab. in Schomb. Reis. iii. p. 742 (1848) ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Wieti, 

 1862, p. 131 ; id. Reise Nov. Vog. p. 3 (1865) ; id. Orn. Bras. p. 1 

 (1867) ; Zeot. Ois. Trinid. p. 2 (1866). 



Catbartes aura, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 2 (1824, nee L.). 



Percnopterus urubu, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 7 (1826). 



Catbartes lu-ubu, Less. TraiU, p. 27 (1831) ; D'Orb. Vmj. Am. Mer 

 p. 31, pi. 1. figs. 1, 2 (1835) ; Gay, Faun. Chil. Zool. p. 200 (1847) 

 Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 32 (1855). 



Catbartes atratus, Siv. ^ Rich. Faun. B.-A. Birds, p. 6 (1831) ; Aud. 

 B. Atn. fol. pi. cvi. et ed. 8vo, i. p. 17, pi. 3 (1839) ; Bp. Consp. i, 

 p. 9 (1850) : Bibra, Denkschr. Ak. Wien, v. p. 128 (1853) ; Cass. 

 U. S. Astr. F.rp. p. 173 (1855) ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 2 (1865) 

 Cass. B. Calif, p. 58 (1855) ; id. V. S. Fxpl. Rvp. p. 85 (1858) 

 Scl. 8r Salv. ibis, 1859, p. 213 ; Cass. B. N. Am. p. 5 (1860) ; Schl. 

 Mus. P.-B. Vult. p. 2 (1862) ; Gurney, Cat. Rapt. B. p. 47 (1864) 

 Baird, Ibis, 1868, p. 274 ; Cunningh. Str. Magell. p. 248 (1871) 

 Allen, Bull. Harv. Coll. ii. p. 318 (1871) ; Scl. i<f Salv. Nomencl. Av. 

 Neotr. p. 123 (1873). 



Vultur iota, Jar dine, ed. Wils. Am. Orti. iii. p. 236 (1832). 



Catbartes iota, Nidt. Man. i. p. 47 (1840) ; Cass. Cat. Vult. Phil. Mus. 

 p. 4 (1849). 



Catbartes brasiliensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 9 (1850) ; Cass. U. S. E.Tpl. 

 Exp. p. 86 (1858). 



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



Coragyps brasiliensis, Bp. ut suprh. 



Catbartes atratus brasiliensis, Schl. Mtis. P.-B. Vult. p. 3 (1862). 



Catbarista atrata. Gray, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 3 (18C9). 



Adult. Black, with a slight brownish shade on the inner seconda- 

 ries ; the feathers of the neck ascending triangularly to the nape ; 

 shafts of primaries white above and below ; tail square, not per- 

 ceptibly paler below, shafts of feathers brown above, white below ; 

 head bare, with black bristly down, black with caruncles of the same 

 colour ; biU and feet bluish ; iris dark brown. Total length about 

 25 inches, culmen 2-85, wing 17*5, tail S'b-, tarsus about 3-35, middle 

 toe about 3"9. 



Nestling. Covered with long woolly down of a dull tawny colour, 

 inclining to dusky fulvoiis on the centre of the back, neck, and 

 abdomen. 



* I have not for the present separated C. brasiliensis as a Bpeeies, the only 

 difference being apparently its slightly smaller size {cf. Allen, Bull. Harv. Coll. 

 ii. p. 313). A ChUian specimen measures — total length about 25 inches, cul- 

 men 2'35, wing 16'3, tail 8, tarsus 3'1. 



