28 VULTXIBIDJ!;. 



4. (Enops urubitinga*. (Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Yellow-necked CaiTion-Crow, Bony an, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 54. 

 Cathartes urubitinga, Pelz. SUz. Akad. Wien, xliv. p. 7 (1861, ex 



Naft. 3IS.); id. Verh. z.-b. irk-n, 1862, p. 133; ScJd. Mus. P.-B. 



Vult. p. 4 (1862) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 225; Gurney, Cat. Rapt. 



B. Koriu. 3Im. p. 46 (1864) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 1 (1871) ; Scl. 



^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Ncotr. p. 123 (1873). 

 Cathartes aura. Scl. ^- Scdv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 753, et 1873, p. 301. 

 Catharista urubitinga, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 3 (1869). 



Adult. Black, the feathers of the neck ascending to the nape tri- 

 angularly ; shafts to primaries above and below white ; head orange 

 in life. Total length about 25 inches, culmen 2-75, wing 19, tail 

 10, tarsus 2-7 1. 



Hah. S. America, from Brazil northwards to Surinam and British 

 Guiana. 



a. Ad. St. Surinam. Soc. " Natura Artis Magistra," 



Amsterdam [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Chyavetas, E. Peru. E. Bartlett, Esq. [C.]. 



5. (Enops calif orniana. 



Vultur californianus, Sliaw &,■ Nodder, Nat. Misc. ix. p. 1, pi. 301 



( 1797 ) ; Vieill. N. Did. xxxvi. p. 450 (1819)_. 

 Vultur columbianiis, Ord, in Gidhries Geogr. ii. p. 315 (1815). 

 Cathartes californianus, llanz. Elem. Orn. vii. p. 23 (1823) ; And. B. 



wings. It is about the size of that species, tlio largest specimen of true ffi". aura 

 in the collection being one from North America, presented by Lord Odo Eussell, 

 and measvu-ing as follows — total length about 29 inches, wing 19-8, tail 11-3, 

 tarsus 27 ; with this the aboTe measurements should be compared. 



* In the 'Annals' for February 1873, I was inclined to unite this species 

 with (Eiicrps hurroviana of Cassin, and suggested that a specimen in the national 

 collection from Jamaica might be that species ; but Mr. Elliot, who has described 

 and figured the type (/. c), and who thus knows the species, assures me that the 

 Jamaican bird can be nothing but ffi. mira. Dr. Sclater also tells me that he 

 examined the type specimen in Philadelphia, and believes that (E. hurroviana 

 is only a small (E. aura ; and Mr. Elliot does not give much credit to it as a 

 species. The latter gentleman makes no mention of the shafts of the quills in 

 his description ; and as this is (with the orange head) the character of (E. uru- 

 bitinga, it seems best to keep the two species separate until such time as a 

 comparison of actual specimens shall dissipate the uncertainty. Mr. Allen 

 (Bull. Harv. Coll. ii. p. 312) also regards the species as based upon an " un- 

 usually small specimen " of (E. aura. The synonymy is as follows : — 



QCnOPS BURROVIANl. 



Cathartes hurrovknus, Cass. Pr. Phil. Acad. ii. p. 212 (1845) ; id. Cat. Vult. 



Philad. Mus. p. 5 (1849) ; id. B. Calif, p. 59 (1855) ; id. U.S. Expl. Exp. 



p. 84 (1858) ; id. in Baird's B. N. Am. p. 6 (I860) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, 



p. 3 ; Scl. # Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 213 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 322 ; Elli4}t, 



B. A'. Am. ii. pi. xxvi. (1866). 

 Catharista hurroviana, Gra^, Hand-l. B. i, p. 3 (1869) ; Sharpe, Ann. N. H. 



(4) xi. p. 133 (1873). 



t Measurements of a pair in the Leiden Museum : — 



$ . Total length 22-5 inches, culm. 2-3, wing 20, tail 102, tarsus 2-45. 

 $ . Total length 22 inches, wing 20, tarsus 24. 



