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Titanohierax gloveralleni Wetmore 



Titanohicrax gloveralleni Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 80, No. 12, 

 October 1937, p. 431, figs. 4-9. 



Recent (extinct) : " Cave deposits on Great Exuma Island, Bahama 

 Islands. 



Genus BUTEOGALLUS Lesson 



Buteogallns Lesson, Traile d'Orn., Hvr. 2, 1830, p. 83. Type, by monotypy, 

 Buteogallns cathartoides Lesson = Fa/co aequinoctialis Gmelin. 



Buteogallus milleri (Howard) ^^ 



Uruhitinga milleri Howard, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 429, October 

 1932, p. 25, pi. 2, figs. 3-3a, pi. 3, fig. 2. 



Late Pleistocene : Hawver Cave, Eldorado County, California. 



Buteogallus fragilis (Miller) ^^ 



Gemnoaetiis fragilis L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., 

 vol. 6, No. 12, Oct. 9, 1911, p. 315, figs. 5a, 5b. 



Late Pleistocene: McKittrick, Kern County, Rancho La Brea (type 

 locality ),^° Los Angeles, and Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Genus WETMOREGYPS Miller 



Wetmoregyps L. H. Miller, Condor, vol. 30, No. 4, July 16, 1928, p. 255. 

 Type, by original designation, Morphnus daggetti Miller. 



Wetmoregyps daggetti (Miller) 

 Morphnus daggetti L. H. Miller, Condor, vol. 17, No. 5, Oct. 10, 1915, p. 179, 

 fig. 63. 



Pleistocene: San Josecito Cave, Aramberri, Nuevo Leon. Late 

 Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea (type locality), Los Angeles, and Car- 

 pinteria, Santa Barbara County, California. 



Genus MORPHNUS Dumont 



Morphnus Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. i, Suppl., October 1816, p. 88. Type, 

 by subsequent designation, Falco giiianensis Daudin (Chubb, 1916). 



^^ Included here since it has not been found in living form, being known only 

 from its bones. 



^8 Referred to this genus by Howard, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 551, 

 Jan. 25, 1946, p. 177. 



^^ Recorded fflso 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). And from late Pleistocene or early Recent deposits in Shelter Cave, 

 Pyramid Peak, Organ Mountains, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, by How- 

 ard, H., and Miller, A. H., Condor, vol. 35, 1933, pp. 16, 17. 



