36 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Coragyps atratus (Bechstein) : Black Vulture 



Vultur atratus Bechstein, in John Latham's allg. Ucbers Vogel, Bd. i, Anh., 

 1793, p. 655. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, and cavern deposits near Lecanto, Florida. Quaternary 

 (probably Recent) : Rocky Arroyo, New Mexico. 



Corag3rps occidentalis (Miller)** 



Catharista occidenialis L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., 

 vol. 5, No. 21, Sept. 10, 1909, p. 306. 



Pleistocene : San Josecito Cavern, Aramberri, Nuevo Leon.*^ Late 

 Pleistocene : Potter Creek and Samwel caves, Shasta County ; Carpin- 

 teria, Santa Barbara County ; McKittrick, Kern County ; and Rancho 

 La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus PHASMAGYPS Wetmore 



Phasmagyps Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, No. 2, July 

 15, 1927, p. 3. Type, by monotypy, Phasmagyps patritus Wetmore. 



Phasmagyps patritus Wetmore 



Phasmagyps patritus Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, No. 2, 

 July 15, 1927, p. 3, figs. 1-4. 



Lower Oligocene (Chadron formation) : Florsetail Creek, Weld 

 County, Colorado. 



Genus PALAEOGYPS Wetmore 



Palaeogyps Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, No. 2, July 

 15, 1927, p. 5. Type, by monotypy, Palaeogyps prudronius Wetmore. 



Palaeogyps prodromus Wetmore 



Palaeogyps prodromus Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, 

 No. 2, July 15, 1927, p. 5, figs. 5-14- 



Lower Oligocene (Chadron formation) : Horsetail Creek, Weld 

 County, Colorado. 



♦* Coragyps shastcnsis (Miller) is a synonym according to Miller, Condor, 

 1941, pp. 140-141. 



*^ Recorded also from deposits that may be late Pleistocene or early Recent 

 in Pit 10 at Rancho La Brea (Howard, H., and Miller, A. H., Carnegie Inst. 

 Washington Publ. 514, 1939, p. 43), Conkling Cavern, Pyramid Peak, Organ 

 Mountains, Dona Ana County, New Mexico (Howard, H., and Miller, A. H., 

 Condor, vol. 35, Jan. 15, 1933, pp. 15, 17), and from Smith Creek Cave, 34 miles 

 north of Baker, White Pine County, Nevada (Howard, H., Condor, vol. 37, 

 July 15, 1935, pp. 206-207). 



