38 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Teratomis merriami Miller 



Teratornis merriami L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., 

 vol. 5, No. 21, Sept. 10, 1909, p. 307, text figs. 1-9. 



Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Pinellas County, and Bradenton, 

 Florida; San Josecito Cave, Aramberri, Nuevo Leon. Late Pleisto- 

 cene: Rancho La Brea (type locality),*^ Los Angeles, McKittrick, 

 Kern County, and Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, California. 



Teratornis incredibilis Howard 



Teratornis incredibilis Howard, Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci., vol. 51, 

 pt. 2, 1952, p. 51, pi. 10, figs. 1-2. 



Quaternary (probably late Pleistocene) : Smith Creek Cave, 34 

 miles north of Baker, White Pine County, Nevada. 



Genus CATHARTORNIS Miller ^s 



Cathartornis L. H. AIiller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., vol. 6, 

 No. I, Nov. 28, 1910, p. 14. Type, by monotypy, Cathartornis gracilis 

 Miller. 



Cathartornis gracilis Miller 



Cathartornis gracilis L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., 

 vol. 6, No. I, Nov. 28, 1 910, p. 14, figs. 40, 4b. 



Late Pleistocene : Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Suborder FALCONES: Secretary-birds, Hawks, and Falcons 

 Superfamily FALCONOIDEA: Hawks, Falcons, and Allies 



Family ACCIPITRIDAE: Hawks, Old World Vultures, and 



Harriers 



Subfamily AEGYPHNAE : Old World Vultures 



Genus PALAEOBORUS Coues 



Palaeoborus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, p. 822. Type, by 

 original designation, Catharlcs ximbrosus Cope. 



Palaeoborus umbrosus (Cope)4o 



Cathartes umbrosus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 26, Oct. 20, 



1874, p. 151- 

 Pliocene : North of Pojauque, New Mexico. 



4^ Recorded also from early Recent deposits in Pit 10, at Rancho La Brea 

 (Howard, H., and Miller, A. H., Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 514, 1939, 



p. 43)- 



43 Allocated to Teratornithidae by Miller, L. H., and Howard, H., Publ. Univ. 

 California at Los Angeles, Biol. Sci., vol. 9, Feb. 18, 1938, pp. 169-170, 173. 



4» Placed in Aegypiinae by Howard, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 349, 

 1932, pp. 45, 70-73, 75, 76. 



