No. A.] COUES'S ORNITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY CATHARTID^. 793 



1878. Anon. Vultures aud Turktiy Buzzards. <^ Forest and Stream, xi, Oct. 31, 1878, 



p. 259. 

 Reprinted from "Florida Star." 

 1878. Kite, W. A Skunk eaten by Turkey-buzzards [Catbartes aura]. <^Am,. Nat., 



xii, No. 12, Dec, 1878, p. 821. 



1878. Smith, G. Stuart. The Condor [Sarcorbampbus grypbus]. <^ Oologist, iv, 

 No. 5, July, 1878, pp. 39, 40. 

 Compiled account of habits. 



1880. Anon. Tbe Condor [Sarcorbampbus grypbus]. <^ Temperance Vedette (news- 

 paper of Terrill, Texas), Mar. 20, 1880. 

 Popular notice, copied from . 



1880. RiDGWAT, R. Notes on tbe American Vultures (Sarcorbampbidse), witb Special 

 Reference to tbeir Generic Nomenclature. <^ Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, x, No. 2, 

 Apr., 1880, pp. 77-84. 



This is an attempt to fix the generic names, which, though comparatively few in number, 

 have been almost inextricably involved, through the conflicting usages of authors who hold 

 to different rules for the adoption of genera. By a kind of "process of elimination", the 

 author determines the following names, with their types: 1, Sarcorhamphus Dum., 1806, for 

 the Condoi ; 2, Oyparchus Gloger, 1842, for the King Vulture; 3, Pseudogryphus'Ridg-w., 1874^ 

 for the Califomian Vulture; 4, Cathartes JR., 1811, for the Turkey Buzzard; 5, Oatharista, 

 VieiU., 1816, for the Black Vulture. The synonyms of each of these are given, with the ref- 

 erences. Eemarksi are made upon Sarcorhamphus cequatorialis and S. gryphus, Pseudogry- 

 phus californianus, Oathartes hurrovianus and 0. pernigra. 



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