10. CEXOPS. 



•SO 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



(/, h. Ad. St. 



c. Pull. St. 



d. c? ad. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 

 /. Skeleton. 



N. America. 

 Costa Rica. 

 Chili. 

 Buenos Ayres. 



J. J. Audubou, Esq. [P.]. 



O. Salvin, Esq. [P.J. 



E. C. Reed, Esq. [C.]. 



Purchased. 



Zool. Society of London. 



10. (ENOPS*. 



Catharista et Cathartes. and. rvcmt. 



Wing of Q^liiops aura. 



Range. The whole of S. America and the Falkland Islands, Cen- 

 tral America and the whole of N. America as far as 49° N". lat., not 

 reaching quite as high on the eastern side ; Cuha and Jamaica, but 

 not in S. Domingo or Porto Rico. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Smaller ; wing not exceeding 25 inches in length. 

 a'. Shafts of primaries brown above. 



«". Plumage black, wings washed with brown ; 



head red aura, p. 25. 



b". Plumage all black ; head yellow pernigra, p. 26. 



c". Plumage black, wings washed externally 



with ashy grey ; head pink falklandica, p. 27. 



h'. Shafts of primaries white above and below ; head 



orange uruhitinga, p. 28. 



b. Larger; -sving 30-31 inches long californiana, p. 28. 



1. (Enops auraf. 



The Turkey Buzzard, Catesby, N. H. Carol, i. p. 6, pi. 6 (1731). 

 Vultur aura, Linn. S. K. i. p. 122 (1766) ; Vteill. Ois. Am. Sept. pi. 2 



bis (1807) ; Wils. Am. Orn. ix. p. 96, pi. Lxxv. fig. 2 (1814). 

 Vultur iota, Molina, Saggio St. JV. Chili, p. 235 (1786). 



* oli'os, vinnm ; (5>//, facies. 



t What the Turkey Vulture of Trinidad (Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 2, 1866) may 

 be I do not know ; but it is not improbably the true (E. aura, which may range 



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