152 CHECK-LIST OP NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Ordee RAPTORES. Birds of Prey. 



SuBORDEE SARCORHAMPHI. American 

 Vultures. 



Family CATHARTID.S. American Vultures. 



Genus GYMNOGYPS Lesson. 



Gymnogyps Lesson, jficho du Monde Savant, s6t. 2, VI, Dec. 8, 1842, 

 1037. Type, by monotypy, VuUur californianus Shaw. 



Gymnogyps calif onu&nus (Shaw). California Vulture. [324.] 



Vvltur californianus Shaw, Nat. Misc., IX, 1797, pi. 301. ("Coast of 

 California" [San Francisco or Monterey?].) 



Range. — Coast ranges of California from Santa Clara County south 

 to northern Lower California; casual north to southern Oregon and 

 east to Arizona ; formerly north to Columbia River. 



Genus CATHARTES Illiger. 



Cathartes Illigeb, Prodromus, 1811, 236. Type, by subs, desig., Vvltur 

 aura Linn^bus (Vigors, 1826). 



Cathartes atira (Linnaeus). 



Range. — Southern Canada south to southern South America. 



a. [Cathartes aura aura. Extralimital.] 



h. Cathartes aura septentilonfilis Wied. Turkey Vulture. [325.] 



Cathartes septentrionalis Wied, Reise Nord-America, I, 1839, 162. (Near 

 New Harmony, Indiana.) 



