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buzzard. He was far beyond the reach of shot, and safe, and if not fatally 

 wounded, may soar above that desolate coast, and fight with vultures and 

 grey eagles over the carcasses of stranded fishes and seals for half a century 

 to come." 



Genus CORAGYPS Is. Geoff. 



Type. 



Coragyps " Isid. Geoff. St. Hilaire," Le Maout, Hist. Nat. 



Ois. (1853), p. 66; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 530. C urubit. 

 Cathansfa, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. i. p. 23 (1874); 



Sharpe, Hand-list Bds. i. p. 240 (1899) (nee Vieill.). . C. nnibii. 

 Cathartes, Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 4 (1844, nee Illig.). . . . C urubu. 



Geographical Range. — South America to 40° south latitude ; the whole 

 of Central America; the lower altitudes of Mexico on the eastern coast 

 and into the United States as far north as North Carolina; not recorded 

 from the western coast of Mexico or California. 



Coragyps urubu (Vieill). 



Vautoitr dti Bresil, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. I. pi. 187 (1770). 



Vultur atratus, Bartr. Trav. Carol, p. 289 (1791). 



Vultuy atratitSy Bartram, Meyer, Zoolog. Annalen 1793, p. 290 (1794); 



Iribu, Azara, Apunt. I. p. 19 (1802). 

 Vtiltur unibu, Vieill. Ois. I'Amer. Sept. pi. 2 (1807). 

 Cathartes fcctans, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 63 (1823): Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 



I ( 1 847) ; Burm. La Plata Reis. II. p. 433 ( 1 86 1 : Mendoza ; Tucuman) ; 



Pelz Reis. Novara, Vog. p. 3 (1865: Santiago, Chili). 

 Cathartes itriibu, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. p. 614 (1826); id. Traite d'Orn. p. 



27 (1831); d'Orb. Voy. Amer. Merid. p. 31, pi. i, figs, i [2 t%g\ 



1835); Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 200 (1847); Phil. & 



Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 2 (1868). 

 Cathartes atratus, Gould, Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 7 (1841 : Rio Negro and 



Rio Colorado, Patagonia); Eraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 108 (Mendoza & 



Chili); Bibra, Denkschr. AK. Wien. V. p. 128 (1853); Hartl. Naum. 



1853, p. 220 (Colchagua); Cass. U. S. Expl. Exped. p. 85 (1858); 



Cunningh. Nat. Hist. Str. Magell. p. 248 (187 1); Huds. P. Z. S. 1872, 



p. 536 (Rio Negro); Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 123 (1873); 



Doering, Expl. al Rio Negro, Zool. p. 52 (1881 : Valley of the Rio 



