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CATHARTES URUBITINGA (Natterer.) 

 YELLOW-NECKED VULTURE. 



Professor Sehlegel, in Ms recent excellent -work on the 

 Birds of the Leyden Museum, makes the following remarks on 

 the Yellow-necked Vulture : — " The tail is much rounded as in 

 the Cathartes aura, which it resembles in many respects ; but 

 it is of smaller size, the feathers of the back of the neck are 

 prolonged to the occiput, the stems of the quill feathers are 

 whitish, the bare parts of the head are of an orange yellow, and 

 the iris is carmine red." 



Dr G. R. Bonyan, in his notes on the Birds of British 

 Guiana, published in the proceedings of the Zoological Society 

 for the year 1851, informs us that the Yellow-headed Vulture 

 " is smaller and more slender" than the Black-headed Vulture, 

 and that it is also "less nimierous" and a less " gi-egarious 

 feeder" — appearing " to search for smaller carcases, such as the 

 putrid fish on the dried savannahs bordering on the creeks." 



The geographical distribution of the YeUow-headed Vulture 

 appears to be limited to tropical America, where it is found in 

 Northern Brazil and Guiana, and if (as is probable) it be the 

 same species as that described by Mr. Cassin, under the title 

 of Cathartes hurrovianus, it extends as far north as Vera Cruz. 



I am not acquainted with any figiu-e of this species, or of 



its egg. 



SPECIMENS OF GATHABTES UBUBITINGA. 



No. 1 Brazi] (G) Mr. Parzudaki. 



No. 2 Ditto (G) Ditto 



