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XVI. — On a new Species of Turkey Vulture from the Falkland 

 Islands and a new Genus of Old- World Vultures. By li, 

 BowDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Senior Assistant, 

 Zoological Department, British Museum. 



The Catharista from the Falklands has always been referred 

 to C. auraj from which species it is obviously distinct, by 

 reason of the conspicuous grey shade on the secondaries. It 

 might be supposed to be the Catharista iota of Molina from 

 Chili ; this species, however, is well represented by Mr. Cassin 

 (U. S. Expl. Exp. pi. 1), and differs in its small size and black 

 coloration from both the North-American and the Falkland- 

 Islands bird. The latter is about the size of C. aura of North 

 America and by no means smaller. 



I am much indebted to the kindness of Mr. Reeve, of the 

 Norwich Museum, for examining the specimens therein con- 

 tained ; and as he finds that the Turkey Vulture from the 

 Falklands presents the same differences as the birds in the 

 national collection, I have no hesitation in proposing the name 

 of Catharista falklandica for the aforesaid Vulture. 



At the same time I may be permitted to inquire whether 

 there are two species of true Turkey Vulture of Jamaica. I 

 do not refer to C. atrata, which is now found there also. The 

 ordinary Turkey Vulture has always been set down as C. aura] 

 but the only specimen in the museum from Jamaica is C. Bur- 

 roviana {C. uruhitinga, Pelz. ex Natt.). Do, therefore, C. 

 aura and C. Burroviana both inhabit the island ? 



Passing to Old-World Vultures I would suggest that an end 

 should be put to the indefinite characters of the genus Gyps, 

 whose tail-feathers are either fourteen or twelve in number, 

 by relegating the two species which enjoy the latter quantity 

 to a separate genus, which may be called 



PsEUDOGYPS, gen. nov. 

 Genus a genere "Gyps" dicto, rectricibus 12 nee 14 distinguendum. 

 The two species to be included in it will be Pseudogyps hen- 

 galensis and Pseudogyps moschatus {cifricanuSj Salvad.). 



XVII. — On some Fossils from the Quebec Group of Point 

 Ldvis, Quebec. By H. Alleyne Nicholson, M.D., D.Sc, 

 M.A., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History in University 

 College, Toronto. 



Having during the preceding summer had the opportunity of 

 paying a hurried visit to Quebec, I was enabled to collect a 



