2^! MR. 11. B. SHAEPE ON TKE 



20. Ehinoghtphus falklajs-dicus. (Map. VI.) 



G5nops falklandica, Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 2/, pi. ii. fig. 1. 

 Hab. Falkland Islands, where it replaces the true R. aura, from which 

 it is distinguished by the secondaries being grey externally. 



21. Ehinogryphus UKTJBixiNaA. (Map YII.) 



CEnops urubitinga (Pelz.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. i. p. 28, pi. 2, 

 fig. 2. 



Hab. Brazil (Mus. Norw.); Irisanga (S. Paulo), December ; Sapitiba, 

 February ; Forte do Rio Branco, February, March, and April (/. Natterer). 

 Chyavetas, E. Peru, " keeps to the forest in pairs, never approaching the 

 towns and villages " (E. Bartlett). Surinam (Mus. Brit.). British 

 Guiana, and less numerous than Catharistes atratus ; found principally 

 about the creeks of Mahaica and Mahaicony " {Banyan). 



N.B. This may also be the Yellow-headed Vulture noticed by 

 Mr. Layard near Para (Ibis, 1873, p. 395). 



22. Ehijstogetphus calieoukiafus. (Map VII.) 



(Exops CALiFORNiANA {Shttw) ; SJiurpe, Cat. B. i. p. 28. 



Hab. Pacific-coast region of North America, from the mouth of the 

 Colorado to the Columbia, Southern Utah (Henshaw). Fort Yuma, 

 Arizona (Coues ; cf. Ridgway, N.-A. Birds, iii. p. 339 ; Coues, B.N.W. 

 p. 384). 



As in the case of the other North-American Vultures, I extract the 

 range as given by Pr. Brewer in his great work on North-American Birds : — 

 " This large Vulture, so far as is known, is restricted to the area on the 

 Pacific coast from the Columbia river to the Colorado, and extending as 

 far to the east as the Sierra Nevada. None are known to have been taken 

 in Mexico ; and it very rarely goes north of the Columbia. It is said 

 to be most common in the hot interior valleys of California, where are 

 large herds of cattle, upon which it to a large extent depends for its food. 

 Dr. Cooper saw none on the Colorado, and met with none east of the San- 

 Bernardino Mountains. Even at Fort Mohave the cattle killed during the 

 five months he resided there did not attract one of these Vultures. 



"Dr. Cooper did not see these birds in any number along the sea-coast, 

 and has noticed none on the islands or in the highest Sierra Nevada. Yet 

 they are said, when other food is scarce, to feed on dead seals and whales ; 

 but this fact he has rever witnessed. 



" Dr. Newbury states * * * after his party left the Sacramento Valley, 

 he saw very few in the Klamath basin, and met with none within the limits 

 of Oregon. It is occasionally found there, but much more rarely than in 

 California." 



