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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 R. 

 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. aura^ 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 falktandica 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. aicra; 

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

 roviana {C. urubitin(/a, 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 '^Gj/ps" dicto, rectricibus 12 nee 14 distinguendum. 



The two species to be included in it will be Psendoyyps ben- 

 galensis and Pseudogyps moschatus {africanus^ Salvad.). 



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

 Mvis^ 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 



