AVES CATHARTID>B. 55 * 



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

 obtained by Dr. Coppinger. These were : 



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

 color ; bill horn-color ; legs dirty yellow. 



"Female: Tom Bay, April u, 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- 

 p.irison of the skins, to be of the same species as the ordinary Rhinogry- 

 plm$ 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. fatk/andicus" 



CATHARTES FALKLANDICUS (Sharpe). 



Catliartes 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 (egg descr.); Abbott, Ibis, 

 1860, p. 432 (Falkland Islands); Scl., P. Z. S. 1860, 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 Gm.), Ibis, 1860, pi. i, fig. 2 (egg) [teste 

 Abbott, t. c. p. 432]. 



Catharista falklandica, 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). 



Rhynogryphus falfclandicus, 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). 



