598 
CATHARUS. — CATHETÜRUS. 
septentrionalis Prinz Wied, Reise I. 162. = Cathartes aura Illig. 
nrabitinga Natterer. v. Pelzeln, Wiener Sitzgsberichte. 1861. XLIV. 7. — 
Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Vultur. 4. [Guiana. Brasilia. 
Vautour du Brésil Buffon, PI. enlum. 187. >— [cf. Cathartes atratus Strickl.] 
Yellow necked Carrion Crow Bonyan, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1851. XIX. 54. 
Cathartes Burrovianus Cassin, Proceed, acad. Philadelphia 1845. II. 212. — 
Baird, Birds N. America 6. 
Cathartes urubu Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. Th. Brasil. II. 32. — Prinz Wied, 
Journ. Ornithol. 1856. IV. 124. 
Catharista urubitinga, C. Burroviana Gray, Handlist Birds I. 3. 
Uruba. — Urubitinga. 
urubu Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. Th. Brasil. II. 32. = Cathartes urubitinga 
Natterer. 
vulturinus Temminck, PI. color. I. Tb. 31. = Cathartes californianus Baird. 
CATHARTJS (Turdidae. — xa^apo;; purus) Bonaparte, Conspectus Avium 1850. 
I. 278. — Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1859. XXVII. 323. Turdus Lin. 
Rostrum Turdorum: pedes elongati, robusti; alae breves, rotundatae; remigum 
prima octävam aequante, tertia quarta quinta omnium longissimis; cauda brevis, 
rotundata. 
aurantiirostris Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1859. XXVII. 323. = Turdus 
aurantiirosiris Hartl. 
aurantiirostris Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1856. XXIV. 294. = Turdus 
melpomene Cab. 
aurantius Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1854. XXXIV. 3. = Turdus aurantius 
Hartl. [non Gmel.] 
dryas Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1859. XXVII. 324. r== Turdus dryas. 
Frantzi Cabanis, Journ. Ornithol. 1860. VIII. 323. = Turdus Frantzi. 
fuscater Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1859. XXVII. 136. 324. = Turdus 
fuscater. 
gracilirostris Salvin, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1864. XXXII. 580. = Turdus 
gracilirostris. 
griseiseps Salvin, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1866. XXXIV. 68. = Turdus griseiceps. 
immaculatus Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 278. = Turdus aurantiirostris Hartl. 
maculatus Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1859. XXVII. 324. = Turdus ma- 
culatus. 
melpomene Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1858. XXVI. 97. — Turdus mel- 
pomene Cab. 
mexicanus Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1859. XXVII. 324. = Turdus mexi- 
canus. 
occidentalis Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1859. XXVII. 320. = Turdus 
occidentalis. 
CATHERPES (Campylorhynchinae) Baird, Birds N. America 18^8. 356. = Cy- 
phorhinus Cab. 
Bill longer than the head, slender; all the outlines nearly straight to the tip, 
then gently decurved, gonys least so; nostrils linear; tarsus short, about equal to 
the middle toe, which reaches to the middle of the middle claw. Outer toe con-'j 
siderably longer than the inner; reaching beyond the base of the middle claw. 
Wings a little longer than the tail; the exposed portion of the first primary about 
half that of the fourth and fifth. Tall feathers very broad and perfectly plane; 
tail nearly even, the two lateral graduated, the outer about eleven twelfths of 
the middle. 
mexicanus Baird, Birds N. America 356. = Cyphorhinus mexicanus. 
CATHETURUS (Megapodidae) Swainson, Classific. Birds 1837. II. 206. = Tale- 
gallus Less. 
Synon.'. Alectura Lath. — Alectrorura Agass. 
Bill short, thick, curved almost from the base, but the tip not hooked. 
Nostrils basal and membranaceous; the aperture large, round, central and nearly 
