Gen. III. CATHARISTA Vieill. (1816). 



Head without caruncle; tail square. 



Plumage black : larger : wing 17.50 ; tail 8.50; 

 tarsus 3.35 in. 

 3 Catharista urubu urubu* (Vieill.), Ois. d'Am., N. & Central 

 Sept., pi. xi. (1807). America, 



Black Vultiu-e. Cuba, 



Jamaica. 



Smaller : wing 16.30 ; tail 8 ; tarsus 3.10 in. 

 3a. Catharista urubu fastens (Wied), Beitr. Naturg. S. America. 

 Bras.,iii., p. 58(1830). 

 S. American Black Vulture. 



Gen. IV. CATHARTES Illiger (1811). 



Tail rounded. 



Plumage black : larger : length 30 ; wing 21.70 ; 

 tail 11.50 in. ; tarsus 2.90 in. 

 4, Cathartes aura aura (Linn.). S.N., i., p. 86 

 (1758). 

 S. American Turkey Vulture. 



Smaller : length 27 ; wing 21 ; tail 10 ; 

 tarsus 2.35 in. 

 4a. Cathartes aura septentrionalis (Wied), J.f.O.. 

 1856, p. 119. 

 N. American Turkey Vulture. 



Median wing coverts and secondaries very 

 distinctly shaded with whitish ashy. 

 4b Cathartes aura falklandicus (Sharpe), Ann. 

 N.H., (4),xi.,p.l33(1873). 

 Falkland Island Turkey Vulture. 



Tropical 

 S. America 

 from 



Colombia to 

 Chile & Brazil. 



N. America 

 (United 

 States) S. to 

 Honduras. 



Falkland Is., 



Patagonia, 



Chile. 



Head yellow ; " shafts of quills and tail- 

 feathers brown above, white below ' [doubtful 

 form]. 

 4c. Cathartes aura pemiger (Sharpe), Cat. Bds., Venezuela, 

 B.M.,i.,p.25(1874). Guiana, 



Venezuelan Turkey Vulture. N. Brazil, 



Peru. 



* Catharles atratvs (Bartr.) of most authors. 



