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Dr. Bowdler Sharpe (p. 25, 1881, pp. 9-10) discusses two specimens 

 obtained by Dr. Coppinger. These were : 



"Male: Tom Bay, April 11, 1879. Iris dark; eyelids and cere flesh- 

 color; bill horn-color; legs dirty yellow. 



"Female: Tom Bay, April 11, 1879. Eyes dark; skin of head and 

 neck light red ; legs and feet dirty grey. 



"The two specimens sent by Dr. Coppinger would appear, from a com- 

 parison of the skins, to be of the same species as the ordinary Rhinogry- 

 phus aura of North America. I have already determined Chilian specimens 

 in the British Museum as belonging to the last-named species ; and, as 

 far as I can now judge from the increased series in that collection, the 

 grey-winged Vultures are confined to the Falkland Islands. I presume 

 that Dr. Coppinger's specimens are a pair, male and female being shot 

 on the same day — the difference in the colour of the soft parts being a 

 very noticeable feature ; while I must at the same time admit that the 

 female with her ' light red ' head has more grey edgings to the wing feathers 

 than the male, and thus shows an approach to R. falklandtcus." 



Cathartes falklandicus (Sharpe). 



Cathartes aura, Less, (nee Linn.) Voy. Coq. Zool. I. p. 614 (1826: Falk- 

 lands) ; Darw. Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 8. part (1841 : Falkland 

 Islands); Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 93 {^%g descr.) ; Abbott, Ibis, 

 i860, p. 432 (Falkland Islands) ; Scl., P. Z. S. i860, p. 383; Abbott, 

 Ibis, 1861, p. 149 (Falkland Islands, resident, breeds in November); 

 Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Vultures, p. 3 (1862: Falkland Islands); Scl. 

 & Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 435; iid. Voy. Chall. II. Birds, pp. 105, 

 150 (1881 : Falkland Islands) ; Oust. Miss. Scient. Cap Horn, 

 Oiseaux, p. 6. part (1891). 



Milvago australis, Scl. (nee Cm.), Ibis, i860, pi. i, fig. 2 [tg"^ [teste 

 Abbott, t. c. p. 432]. 



Catharista falklaudica, Sharpe, Ann. Nat. Hist. (4) xi, p. 133 (1873). 



CEnops falklandicus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. I. p. 27, pi. ii, fig. i 

 (1874); Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. part X. p. 241 

 (1888: Falkland Islands); Martens, Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr. p. 5 

 (1900: Falkland Islands). 



Rhynogryphns falklandicus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. I. p. 455 (1874); 

 id. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 10; Vincig. Boll. Soc. Geogr. Ital. (2) IX. p. 

 797 (1884); Gurney, List Diurn. B. Prey, p. 4 (1884). 



