152 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
OrpDER RAPTORES. Brirps oF PREY. 
SUBORDER SARCORHAMPHI. American 
VULTURES. 
Famity CATHARTIDA. AMERICAN VULTURES. 
GENUS GYMNOGYPS Lesson. 
Gymnogyps LEsson, Echo du Monde Savant, sér. 2, VI, Dec. 8, 1842, 
1037. Type, by monotypy, Vultur californianus SHaw. 
Gymnogyps californianus (SHaw). California Vulture. [324.] 
Vultur californianus SHaw, Nat. Mise., IX, 1797, pl. 301. (‘‘Coast of 
California” [San Francisco or Monterey ?].) 
RaNGE.— Coast ranges of California from Santa Clara County south 
to northern Lower California; casual north to southern Oregon and 
east to Arizona; formerly north to Columbia River. 
GeENus CATHARTES ILLIGER. 
Cathartes ILLIiGER, Prodromus, 1811, 236. Type, by subs. desig., Vultur 
aura LINN&US (Vigors, 1825). 
Cathértes atira (LINN Us). 
RANGE.— Southern Canada south to southern South America. 
a. [Cathartesauraaura. Extralimital.] 
b. Cathartes aura septentrionélis Wimp. Turkey Vulture. [325.] 
Cathartes septentrionalis WiEpD, Reise Nord-America, I, 1839, 162. (Near 
New Harmony, Indiana.) 
