16 A. von Pelzeln on Birds in 



As the importance of typical specimens was formerly not so 

 acknowledged as now-a-days, several of the types, being in bad 

 preservation, were transferred to the duplicates. I have there- 

 fore given an indication in every case where the specimens 

 no longer exist in our collection. 



PART I. 



Birds enumerated in the inventory as obtained directly from the 



Museum Lever ianum. 



VULTURLD.E. 



1. Sarcoramphus gryphus (Linne). (280, 51.) 



Condur, Latham, Gen. Synops. i. 4; Suppl. 1. p. 1. 



Vultur gryphus, Linne; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 1. n. 1; Shaw, 

 Mus. Lever, vi. (1796) t. 1; Humboldt, Rec. d'Observ. 1811, 

 i. 26-45, t. 8, 9 (Mem. lu a TAcad. 13 Oct. 1806). 



Vultur magellanicus, Shaw, Mus. Lever, i. (1792) t. 1. 



Sarcoramphus cuntur, Dumeril, Zool. Anal. 1806, 32. 



Vultur condor, Shaw, Gen. Zool. 1809, vii. 2, t. 2 et 3, t. 4 

 (copied from Humboldt) . 



Cathartes gryphus (L.), Temm. PI. Col. 1. 133 (m. ad.), 494 

 (caput maris), 408 (fern. juv.). 



The male (280) is the type of the descriptions and figures 

 of Shaw (Mus. Lever, vi. t. 1, and Gen. Zool. t. 2) and Tem- 

 minck (PI. Col. 133), where also measurements are given. 



The female (51) was bought by Herr von Fichtel; it was 

 not enumerated among the birds from the Museum Leve- 

 rianum, but in another inventory of birds which were purchased 

 (1806) from Herr von Fichtel. Nevertheless, as at this time 

 the Leverian collection was in possession of the unique pair of 

 this Vulture, as Shaw (Gen. Zool. 7) remarks that it is said 

 that both specimens were purchased for the Emperor of Aus- 

 tria, and as this is confirmed by Temminck'*, it appears doubt- 



* " Le Museum Imperial a Vienne est la seule collection en Europe ou 

 se trouve un couple de ces oiseaux ; ce sont les memes qui ont fait partie 

 de la belle collection du Leverian Museum a Londres ; ils ont ete acquis 

 par l'Empereur d'Autriche lors de la rente de cette brillante collection ; 

 ces deux individus sont les seuls apporte"s en Europe depuis la decouverte 

 de l'Amerique." — Temminck, I. c. 



