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324. Fseudogryphus calif ornianus (Shaw). 



California Vulture. 



Vultur californianus Shaw, Nat. Misc. IX. 1797, pi. ccci. 

 Fseudogryphus californianus Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. B. III. 1874, 



[B 2, C 364, R 453, C 536.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Coast ranges of southern California from Monterey 

 Bay southward into Lower California ; formerly north to Frazer River. 



Genus CATHARTES Illiger. 



Cathartes Illig. Prodr. 181 1, 236. Type, by elimination, Vultur 

 aura Linn. 



325. Cathartes aura (Linn.). 



Turkey Vulture. 



Vultur aura Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 86. 

 Cathartes aura Spix, Aves Bras. I. 1825, 2. 

 [B I, C 365, R 454, C 537.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Temperate North America, from New Jersey, Ohio 

 Valley, Saskatchewan region, and British Columbia southward to 

 Patagonia and the Falkland Islands. Casual in New England. 



Genus CATHARISTA Vieillot. 



Catharista Vieill. Analyse, 1816, 21. Type, by elimination, 

 Vultur atratus Bartr. 



326. Catharista atrata (Bartr.). 



Black Vulture. 



Vultur atratus Bartr. Trav. Car. 1792, 285. 

 Catharista atrata Gray, Handl. I. 1869, 3. 

 [B 3, C 366, R 455, C 538.] 

 Geog. Dist. — South Atlantic and Gulf States, north regularly to 

 North Carolina and the lower Ohio Valley, west to the Great Plains, 

 and south through Mexico and Central America, the West Indies, and 

 most of South America. Straggling north to New York, New Eng- 

 land, and South Dakota. Breeds in the United States from North 

 Carolina coastwise to Texas, and in the interior to Indiana, Illinois, 

 and Kansas. 



