FOSSIL BIKDS. 389 



Order RAPTORES. 

 Suborder SARCORAMPHI. 



Family CATHARTIDiE. 

 Genus PAL^OBORUS Coues. 



Palmdborus Cotjes, Key N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 822. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Cathartes umbrosus Cope. 



Palaeoborus umbrosus (Cope). [56.] 



Cathartes umbrosus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1874, 151. 

 Pliocene; New Mexico. 



Genus CATHARISTA Vieillot. 



Catharista occidentalis L. H. Miller. 



Catharista occidentalis Milleb, Univ. Calif. Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., V, 

 No. 21, Sept. 10, 1909, 306. 



Quatemaiy asphalt beds at Rancho La Brea, near Los Angeles, 

 California. 



Suborder FALCONES. 

 Family TERATORNITHID^ ? 



Genus TERATORNIS Miller. 



Teratornis Miller, Univ. Calif. Publ.— Bull. Dept. Geol., V, No. 21, Sept. 

 10, 1909, 307. Type, by monotypy, Teratornis merriami Miller. 



Teratfimis mSrriami L. H. Miller. 



Teratornis merriami Miller, Univ. Calif. Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., 

 V, No. 21, Sept. 10, 1909, 307, text figs. 1-9. 



Quaternary asphalt beds at Rancho La Brea, near Los Angeles, 

 California. 



