ORDER RAPTORES. oe 
RancGe.— Austral and Transition zones from southern British Columbia, 
Saskatchewan, western Manitoba, northern Minnesota, southwestern Ontario, 
western and southern New York, and New Jersey south to southern Lower 
California and northern Mexico; winters throughout most of its regular range 
on the Atlantic slope but westward retires to California, Nebraska, and the 
Ohio Valley; casual in Wisconsin, Michigan, northern Ontario, and New 
Brunswick. 
GeNus CATHARISTA VIEILLOT. 
Catharista ViE1LLoT, Analyse, 1816, 21. Type, by subs. desig., Vultur 
urubu Vie1LLoT (Sharpe, 1874). 
Catharista Grubu (ViEILLoT). Black Vulture. [326.] 
Vultur urubu ViEI1LLoT, Ois. Amer. Sept., I, 1807, 23, pl. ii. (Carolina 
and Florida.) 
RanceE.— Tropical and Lower Austral zones from western Texas, 
Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, and southeastern Virginia south through 
the southern States, Mexico, and Central America to southern South 
America; casual in Ohio, Maine, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova 
Scotia; rare in the West Indies. 
SuBoRDER FALCONES, Vutrurss, Fatcons, 
Hawks, Buzzarps, Eacurs, Kitrs, HARRIERS, ETC. 
Famity BUTEONIDZ. Hawks, Eaauss, Kress, ETC. 
GENUS ELANOIDES VIE ILLorT. 
Elanoides ViritLot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., XXIV, 1818, 101. Type, 
by monotypy, Falco furcatus LInNm=uUs = F. forficatus LINN&=US. 
Elanoides forficdtus (LINN&us). Swallow-tailed Kite. [327.] 
Falco forficatus LINNmUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 89. (Carolina.) 
Rance.— North and South America. Breeds locally from south- 
eastern Saskatchewan, northern Minnesota, southern Wisconsin, 
