NO. 2 



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The greater abundance of remains of the black vulture over those 

 of the turkey vulture in these deposits is worthy of comment as indi- 

 cating possibly the relative abundance of these two birds during the 

 Pleistocene. The black vulture is first known as a fossil from this 

 area. 



GYMNOGYPS CALIFORNIANUS (Shaw) 



California condor 



I'ltlhir calijoni'uuius Sliaw, Nat. Misc., vol. 9, 1707, pi. 301. 



In the material secured on Hog Creek, near Sarasota, Florida, by 

 J. E. Moore in 1928, there is part of the distal end of a left meta- 

 tarsus (see pi. 4, and figs. 4-5) that agrees so exactly in form and 



Figs. 4-5. — Fragmentary metatarsus of Cali- 

 fornia Condor (Gyiimogyps calif orniauits) from 

 near Sarasota (natural size). 



dimension with two modern specimens of the California condor that 

 there is no hesitancy in identifying it as that species. It may be 

 remarked that Gymnogyps has the middle trochlea of the metatarsus 

 decidedly smaller than the South American condor J'nlliir, this serving 

 to distinguish the metatarsus in these two genera without difficulty. 



In collecting in the Seminole area W. W. Holmes obtained a bit 

 of a right humerus comprising the ulnar trochlea with the adjacent 

 external parts, and the distal end of a right radius that arc identified 

 as remains of this species. 



The previously known range of the California condor has been 

 entirely western as it has been found living in the coast ranges of 

 California from Santa Clara Comity south into northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia, ranging in earlier days north to the Columbia River. Though 



