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cf. Lawrence, Mem. Boat. Soc. ii. p. 303); eveiywhere in Guatemala 

 (Saloin); very abundant in Honduras in the villages (G. C. Taylor) ; in 

 great numbers about Omoa (Leyland); breeds in Costa Rica, vihere it is a 

 very common species in the neighbourhood of almost every inhabited 

 place {Von Franfzius); Panama {McClelland). 



West-India Islands. Cuba {Gundlach) ; Jamaica, recently arrived 

 (March) ; not seen there by Mr. Gosse ; not in Porto Rico {E. C. Taylor)^ 

 nor in any of the islands between Trinidad and S. Thomas {E. C. Taylor). 

 S. America. Very common in Trinidad and Venezuela {E. C. Taylor) -^ 

 widely distributed in British Guiana {Bony an') ; Surinam {Mus. Lugd.) ; 

 New Granada (ilf MS. Lugd.); Columbia, Ocana {fVyatt) ; Ecuador, in hun- 

 dreds at Babahoyo, Perruche, common in the pueblo, sitting on the roofs^ 

 and above Puellaro (Fraser) ; F.oV, ''«3 common throughout the country 

 all the year round, more especially ^ the dry season, when the Peruvians are 

 collecting and drying Vacea marina and fish {E. Bartlett). " We have 

 met with this Vulture in the whole of Brazil, in the Republic of Uruguay, 

 in Patagonia, Pai'aguay, Chili, Peru, Bolivia. It is common at Maldonado, 

 in the Banda oriental of La Plata, but is never found near Buenos Ayres, 

 It only commences to become common again in Patagonia, which caused 

 Azara to say that it was not found to the south of the La Plata. We can only 

 attribute its disappearance to the absence of trees or bushes in the Pampas ; 

 for it reappears in numbers on approaching the Coi-dillera of the Andes. It 

 disappears at once, and is seldom seen in the elevated parts of this Cordil- 

 lera. We have met with it more often and in large troups in Patagonia, 

 on the banks of the Rio Negro, near the towns in Chili, and particularly 

 on the maritime coasts of Peru, as well as in the interior in the plains of 

 Bolivia; but it is rare in the mountains" {D'Orbigny). Rio Janeiro 

 (December), Ypanema (April, May) (Natterer); Para (Wallace, Layard); 

 Lagoa Santa (JjMrecZ) ; Catangallo (August) {Euler); Santa Catharina {Ber- 

 lepsch); Rio Negro, Patagonia (Hudson) ; never found to the south of this 

 river, never seen in Patagonia or Tierra del Fuego {Darwin); common in 

 the whole of Brazil, spread through the La- Plata States, but more plen- 

 tiful in the east and north than in the w est and south, nowhere so common 

 as in Brazil (Burmeister); comes into the province of Santiago and the 

 northern parts of Chili, but not in such innumerable quantities as in Peru, 

 where thousands of these birds are found in the streets of Lima (Bibra) ; 

 found on the eastern sides of the Andes near Mendoza, and occasion- 

 ally seen in the province of Colchagua (Brydges); common in Mendoza; 

 not seen in Chiloe or on the west co>ist of the continent to the south of that 

 island (^Darwin). Prof. Cunningham, however, found this Vulture very 

 common in Chiloe; so that perhaps it has been introduced there since 

 Mr. Darwin's voyage. 



The British Museum has a slsin said to be from Buenos Ayres ; 

 but it is probably from some adjacent locality. 



