152 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



ORDER RAPTORES. BIRDS OF PREY. 



SUBORDER SARCORHAMPHI. AMERICAN 

 VULTURES. 



FAMILY GATHARTIDJE. AMERICAN VULTURES. 



GENUS GYMNOGYPS LESSON. 



Gymnogyps LESSON, 6cho du Monde Savant, se"r. 2, VI, Dec. 8, 1842, 

 1037. Type, by monotypy, Vultur californianus SHAW. 



GJmnogyps californianus (SHAW). California Vulture. [324.] 



Vultur californianus SHAW, Nat. Misc., IX, 1797, pi. 301. ("Coast of 

 California" [San Francisco or Monterey?].) 



RANGE. Coast ranges of California from Santa Clara County south 

 to northern Lower California; casual north to southern Oregon and 

 east to Arizona; formerly north to Columbia River. 



GENUS GATHARTES ILLIGER. 



Cathartes ILLIGER, Prodromus, 1811, 236. Type, by subs, desig., Vultur 

 aura LINNAEUS (Vigors, 1825). 



Cathartes aura (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. Southern Canada south to southern South America. 



a. [Cathartes aura aura. Extralimital.] 



6. Cathartes aura septentrionlis WIED. Turkey Vulture. [325.] 



Cathartes septentrionalis WIED, Reise Nord-America, I, 1839, 162. (Near 

 New Harmony, Indiana.) 



