ADDENDUM TO PP. 3-4. 
Dr. Wetmore has pointed out to me that Molina apparently named the continen- 
tal and not the coastal Turkey Vulture in Chile, so it becomes necessary to use his 
name iota for the form I have renamed meridionalis and to drop the latter name. 
Therefore iota used for the coastal bird, as suggested by Chubb, must be replaced 
by falklandica of Sharpe. 1 also find it desirable to restore septentrionalis for the 
larger U.S. race which I included with C. aura aura, to unite with the latter my 
C. aura insularis, and also to distinguish the small Eastern South American red- 
headed bird, united by Chubb with the yellow-headed bird under the name of 
vuficollis, which properly belongs to the former. The races therefore stand as 
below (the corrections being also indicated) :— 
4. Cathartes aura aura (Linn.). 
For distribution read ‘“‘ E. Mexico, Guatemala, Cozumel I., Cuba, Jamaica, 
Bahamas ’”’; in description for wing measurement read “‘ 470-505’; and 
before “‘ metallic reflections ’’ add “ blue and purple.” 
4a. Catharies aura iota (Molina), Saggio St. N. Chile, 
Pp. 265, 343 (1782). [‘‘ Chile,” type loc. subst. 
Santiago, Chile.| 
4b. Cathartes aura falklandica (Sharpe), Ann. N.H. (4), 
x1., p. 133 (1873). [Berkeley Sound.] 
To distribution add “‘ on coast and also to Chincha Is., Peru.”’ To descrip- 
tion add “‘ above glossed with green and bronze.” 
4c. Cathartes aura septentvionalis (Wied), Reise Nord. N. America, S. to 
Amerika, i., p. 162 (1839). [Near New Harmony, Mexican tableland. 
Indiana.) 
Larger than C. aura aura; .wing ad. 510-540, tail 
270-285 mm. ; plumage blackish brown, wing-coverts 
margined with pale brown; above glossed with blue 
and purple. 
4d. Cathartes aura ruficollis Spix, Av. Bras.,i., p. 2, 1824. Eastern S. America 
[Interior Bahia et Piauhy.] A (Venezuela, Guiana 
Brazilian Turkey-Vulture. and Brazil to 
Paraguay). 
Smaller; wing ad. 485-510, tail 270 mm.; blacker 
than C. aura aura or C. aura iota; less brown on 
wings; plumage glossed with blue and purple. 
5. Catharies urubitinga Pelz, Sitzungsb. Akad. Wien, 
xliv., p. 39 (1861). [S. and C. Brazil.] 
[=C. a. ruficollis, Swann Synopsis, p. 4.] 
To description add: ‘“‘ above glossed with green 
and violet.” 
