240 GENEBA A2TD SPECIES OF BIRDS. 



II. argfllnrmsS, Owen. 



(Lydekker, Cat. Foss. B. p. 47, 1891.) 



1. longipeitTUS. Owen. (Lydekker, I. e.) England (Lower Eocene), 



III. Hiptornfe, Amegh. 



(Amegh., Bol. Inst. Geogr. Argent, xv. p. 99, 1895.) 



1. IjefltemuS, Amegh. I. c. Patagonia (Miocene). 



Order XXIV. CATHAETIDIFOEMES. 



(Sharpe, Classif. B. p. 78, 1891.) 



Family I. CATHARTIDiE. 



I. SARCORHAMPHTJS, Bum. 



(Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 20, 1874.) 



1. gryphus (Linn,.), (p. 20.) Andes of Ecuador, Peru, 



Chile, and Patagonia, 



N. to Rio Negro. 



2. aequatorialis, Sharpe. (p. 21.) Ecuador. 



? Colombia. 



II. GYPAGUS, 



(Caihartes, nee HI., Sharpe, t, c. p. 22.) 



1. papa (Linn,.), (p. 22.) Mexico to Panama. 



Tropical S. America. 



III. CATHAEISTES, Vidll. 



(Sharpe, t. c. p. 23.) 



1. xirub-u. (Vieill.). (p. 24.)* Tropical S. America. 



C. America. 

 E. & S. United States. 



IV. CATHARTES, Illig. 



\Rhinoyryphus, Ridgw. (p. 455); GEnops, Sharpe (p. 25).] 



1. auxa (Linn.), (p. 25.) N. & C. America. 



Tropical S. America 

 (winter). 



2. falklandicus (Sharpe). (p. 27.) Falkland Is., 



Patagonia, Chile. 



3. perniger (Sharpe). (p. 26.) Guiana, 



Amazonia, Peru. 



Cf. Coues, Auk, xTii. p. 84 (Jan. 1899). 



