ORDER RAPTORES. 153 



Range. — Austral and Transition zones from southern British Columbia, 

 Saskatchewan, western Manitoba, northern Minnesota, southwestern Ontario, 

 western and southern New York, and New Jersey south to southern Lower 

 California and northern Mexico; winters throughout most of its regular range 

 on the Atlantic slope but westward retires to California, Nebraska, and the 

 Ohio Valley; casual in Wisconsin, Michigan, northern Ontario, and New 

 Brunswick. 



Genus CATHARISTA Vieillot. 



Catiiarista Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 21. Type, by subs, desig., Vvltur 

 urvbu Vieillot (Sharpe, 1874). 



Oatharista firubu (Vieillot). Black Vulture. [326.] 



Vvltur urvhu Vieillot, Ois. Amer. Sept., I, 1807, 23, pi. ii. (Carolina 

 and Florida.) 



Range. — Tropical and Lower Austral zones from western Texas, 

 Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, and southeastern Virginia south through 

 the southern States, Mexico, and Central America to southern South 

 America; casual in Ohio, Maine, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova 

 Scotia; rare in the West Indies. 



Suborder FALCONES, Vultures, Falcons, 

 Hawks, Buzzards, Eagles, Kites, Harriers, etc. 



Family BUTEONID.®. Hawks, Eagles, Kites, etc. 



Genus ELANOIDES Vieillot. 



Elanoides Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXIV, 1818, 101. Type, 

 by mouotypy, Falco furcatus Linn^tjs = F. forficatus Linn^us. 



Elanoides forficatus (Linn^us). Swallow-tailed Kite. [327.] 

 Falco forficatus Linnjevs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 89. (Carolina.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds locally from south- 

 eastern Saskatchewan, northern Minnesota, southern Wisconsin, 



