792 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURYEY. [Voir. 



1871. Caton, J. D. Turkey Buzzard [Catliartes aura]. < Am. Nat, iv, 1871. p. 762. 



l>rote on sense of smell in Cathartes aura. 



1871. Orton, J. On the Condors [Catliartidse] and Humming-birds of tlie Equa- 

 torial Andes. < Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 4tli ser., viii, 1871, pp. 185-192. 



1871. Okton, J. The Vultures [Cathartidae] and Humming Birds of Tropical Amer- 

 ica. <^Canad. Nat. Sf Quart. Journ., n. s., v, 1871, pp. .357-360. 



See Amer. Nat., v, Oct., 1871, pp. 619-626. 



1873. Caton, J. D. Sense of Smell in the Turkey Buzzard [Cathartes aura]. < Am. 

 Sportsman, iii, 1873, p. 87. 



1873. Lynch, W. F. A Condor Hunt. < Am. Sportsman, ii, 1873, p. 58. 



1873. Sharpe, E. B. On a New Species of Turkey Vulture from the Falkland Islands, 



and a New Genus of Old World Vultures. < Ann. Mag. Nat. Sist., 4th ser., 

 xi, Feb., 1873, pp. . 



Not seen. 



Oatharista falhlandicas, p. 133 ; Pseudogyps, g. n., p. 133. 



1874. CoPE,E. D. Annual Report | upon the | Geographical Explorations and Sur- 



veys West of the | one hundredth meridian, | in California, Nevada, | Utah, 

 Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, | Wyoming, and Montana, | by George M. 

 Wheeler, | first lieutenant of Engineers, U. S. A. ; | being | Appendix FF | of 

 the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1874. | — | Washington : | 

 Government Printing Office. | 1874. 8vo. jip. 130, map. 



Report of E. D. Cope, pp. 115-130. — Only ornithological in describing Oathartes umbrosus, 

 n. sp. foss., p. 130. (The species may prove to belong to some other group ot Baptores.) 



1874. COUES, E. The Californian Vulture [Cathartes californianus]. <^ Am. Sports- 



man, iv, 1874, p. 160. 

 Mainly quoted from account of Alex. S. Taylor, San Francisco Heralei, May 5, 1859. 



1875. Anon. Several mooted questions. <^ Forest and Stream, iv, Feb. 11, 1875, p. 5. 



Cathartes aura in Vermont. 

 1875. Anon. Eggs and Nest of the Condor [Sarcorhamjihus gryphus]. <^Odlogist, iy 



1875, p. 66. 

 1875. Eagle, C. H. Buzzards [Cathartidse] in Maine. <^Fo7-est and Stream, ni, Jan. 



14, 1875, p. 35". . 

 1875. GuKNEY, J. H. [With reference to remarks on the races of the Condor, Ibis, 



1875, p. 91. ] < lUs, 3d ser., v, 1875, pp. 269, 270. 



1875. Hadfield, H. Instinct of Birds : Olfactory Power of the Vultures. < Zoolo- 

 gist, 2d ser., x. Mar., 1875, pp. 4373-4376. 



On the question of the comparative power of the senses of sight and smeU, the former being 

 considered the one most employed in the search for food. 



1875. MosES, J. T. C. Turkey Buzzards [Cathartes aura at Grand Menan Isl., Maine]. 



<^ Forest and /Stream, v, Aug. 26, 1875, p. 36. 



1876. Slerling, E. Queer fish, skunk and buzzards. <^Bod and Gmi, vii, Mar. 4, 



1876, p. 359. 



Account of tame Oathartes axira. 



1877. [CoUES, E.] Birds. < The Mirror (Baltimore, Md.), June 1, 1877. 



Editorial extracts from the "Birds of the Northwest", relating to certain North American 

 Falconidce and Cathartidce. 



1877. [CouES, E.] Birds. < The Mirrm- (Baltimore, Md.), July 1, 1877, p. 4. 



Editorial extracts from the "Birds of the Northwest", relating to certain Cathartidce. 

 1877. [CouES, E.] Birds. < The Mirror (Baltimore, Md.), Aug. 1, 1877, pp. 4, 5. 



Biography of Cathartes aura, from "Birds of the Northwest". 

 1877. Langdon, F. W. Occurrence of the Black Vulture or Carrion Crow [Cathartes 

 atratus] in Ohio. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii. No, 4, Oct., 1877, p. 109. 



Only record of such occurrence since Audubon's. 



