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Genus CATHAETES. Illiger. 



Crop feathered. Male without fleshy crest, or other appendages on the head. Only 

 the upper half or less of the neck bare ; plumage commenciDg gradually with normal 

 broad feathers ; feathers of breast and abdomen broad and normal. Head only moderately 

 elongated, the upper outline irregular, the forehead elevated above the dorsal outline 

 of the cere. Bill strong, the terminal hook well developed, its outlines only moderately 

 convex ; cere nearly equal to the head in length. 8exes alike, 



Mr. Ridgway places our two species in separate genera, which for con- 

 venience may here be considered sub-genera, as follows : 



Rhinogryphus. Nostril occupying the whole of the nasal cavity, it anterior end 

 broadly rounded ; cere as deep as broad, the upper and lower outlines 

 divergent posteriorly, the former considerably arched ; lower mandible 

 much less deep than upper. Skin of the neck without corrugations ; a 

 semi-circular tuft of antrorse radiating bristles in front of the eye. Wing 

 very long, the primaries reaching to or beyond the end of the tail. Tail 

 much rounded. (B. aura and B. iurrovianus.) 



Catharista. Nostril occupying only the posterior half of the nasal cavity, its an- 

 terior end contracted and acute; cere depressed, much wider than deep, its 

 upper and lower outlines parallel, the former not perceptibly arched ; lower 

 skin of the neck transversely corrugated ; no tuft of bristles in front of the 

 eye. Wings short, the primaries reaching scarcely to the middle of tail. 

 Tail even, or slightly emarginate. (C. atratus.) 



Cathaetes adea (L.) Illiger. 



Turliey Buzzard* 



Vultur aura, WiLSOK, Am. Orn., iv, 1812, 89. 



Cathartes aura, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 18,38, 161, 176, — Ebad, Proo. Phila. Acad. 

 Nat. Soi., vi, 1853, 395.— Kirkpatrice, Ohio Farmer, vii, 1658, 59 ; Ohio Agrio. Eep. 

 for 1858, 343.— Whbaton, Ohio Agrio. Eep. for 1860, 360 ; Eeprint, 1861, 2 ; Food of 

 BirjJs, etc , Ohio Agric. Eep. for 1874, 571 ; Eeprint, 1875, 11.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of 

 Cin., 1877, 13; Summer Birds, Journ. Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., iii, 1880, 226. 



Bhinogryphus aura, Langdon, Eevised List, Jonm. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 180 ; Ee- 

 print, 14. 



Turkey Bnzzard, Kirtland, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 1. 



Vultur aura, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 122. 



Cathartee aura, Illigbr, Prod., 1811, 236. 



BMnogryphus aura, Baird, Brewer and Eidgwat, N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 344. 



Blackish-brown ; quills ashy-gray on their under surface ; head red ; feet flesh- 

 colored; bill white. Skin of the head corrugated, sparsely beset with bristle-like 

 feathers; plumage commencing in a circle on the neck; tail rounded. Length, about 

 2J feet ; extent, 6 ; wing, 2 ; tail, 1. 



Habitat, The whole of the United States and adjoining British Poesessions. South 

 through Central and most of South America. 



Common summer resident in Southern and Middle, less common in 



