10. (EN0P8, 29 



Am. fol. iv. pi. 42G, et 8vo ed. i. p. 12, pi. 1 (1839) ; Grai/ 8)- Mitch. 



Gen. of B. i. p. 4, pi. 2 (1844); Cass. Cat. Vult. Phil. Mus. p. 4 



(1849) ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. p. 9 (1850) ; A. S. Taylor, Zoul. 



]8oo, p. 4632 ; Strickl. Om. Syri. p. 3 (1855) ; Cass. B. Calif, p. 58 



(1855); Schl. Hand/. Dierk. i. p. 170, Vog. pi. 1. fig. 8 (1857) ; 



Cass. B. N. Am. i. p. 5 (1860) ; Scl. Ibis, 1860, p. 278, pis. 8, 9 ; Schl. 



Mus. Pays-Bus, Cultures, p. 2 (1862); Gurney, Cat. Rapt. B. 



Norw. Mus. p. 39 (1864) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 366 ; Cooper, B. 



Calif, ed. Baird, p. 496 (1870). 

 Cathai-tes vultm-inus, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 31 (1824). 

 Sarcorhamphus californianus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 6 (1826) ; 



Sw. S,- Rich. F. Bor.-Am. p. 1 (1831) ; Lic?if. Abh. Berlin Akad. 



1838, tab. 1. 

 Catharista californiana, Gray, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 3 (1809), 



Adult. Entire head and neck bare, in life orange-yellow and red, 

 excepting a few bristles on the forehead, extending to the base of 

 the beak and in front of the eye ; general colour black, all the 

 feathers margined with brown, the rump less distinctly ; a few inter- 

 scapulary plumes shaded with ashy grey ; inner greater wing-coverts 

 and secondaries broadly margined externally with buffy white ; outer 

 secondaries shaded with grey ; quills and tail black ; round the neck 

 a ruff of lanceolate feathers ; a bare patch on the breast ; under sur- 

 face of body brownish black ; the breast-feathers lanceolate like 

 those of the ruff ; bill yellowish ; feet bluish black ; iris carmine. 

 Total length about 40 inches, culmen from anterior point of nostril 

 3-4, wing about 30, tail 15-5, tarsus 4-3, middle toe 5-3. 



Young. Similar to adult, but the brown edgings to the upper 

 plumage a little paler and more conspicuous ; the grey shade on 

 secondaries very indistinct, and whitish wing-bar absent ; head and 

 neck sparsely covered with woolly brown down ; feathers of the ruff 

 and breast not so distinctly lanceolate ; bill entirely horn-brown, 

 inclining to whitish towards the tips ; iris hazel. 



Hab. Western side of North America ; California and Oregon ; 

 seldom north of the river Columbia. 



rt.Ad.sk. California. A. Menzies,Esq. [P.]. Type of the 



species figured by Shaw and 

 Temminck. 



i. Ad. St. Monterey, Cal.(7'ay/or). J. H. Gurney, Esq. [E.l. 



c. Jut. St. Monterey, Cal. (T«)/^or). J. H. Gurney, Esq. [E.]. 



d. Skeleton. Zoological Society. 



