I9O THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (VoL. XXXIX. 
27. Cathartes aura aura (Linn.). “ Aura.’— The Turkey 
Buzzard is very common everywhere in the island. The bird of 
the Isle of Pines, and other West Indian Islands, is very much 
smaller than that occurring in the southern United States and 




FIG. 6. C" growth ehren the pine lands. The highest tree in the center of the 
pict e that grows chiefly near the seacoast north of the Cienaga. 

as Wied named the latter septentrionalis, Linné's name should be 
restricted to the small southern form, since he gave the distribu- 
tion of his Vu/tur aura as North America, Jamaica, Mexico, etc. 
The Turkey Buzzard of the southern United States should be 
known as Cathartes aura septentrionalis (Wied). 
! Cathartes septentrionalis Wied, gourn. f. Orn., p. 119, 1856. 
