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ated, — I cheerfully withdraw all claim to recognition of the name 
substituted by me, under misapprehension of the facts involved, as 
above stated. 
Following are the principal synonyms and references thereto of 
the several genera of Sarcorhamphidce , so far as I have been able to 
collate them. 
(1.) Sarcorhamphus, Dum^ril. 
< Sarcoramphus, Dum., Zool. Analyt., 1806, 32 (no type indicated; 
species enumerated are “le Condor, le Papa, l’Oricou,” == respectively, 
Vultur gryphus, L., V. papa , L., and V. auricularis, Daud., the latter an Old 
World species,. belonging to the family Falconidce). 
= (?) Sarcoramphus Dum., Humboldt’s Voy., 1811* (includes S. cun- 
tur , Dum. = V. gryphus, L.). 
— Sarcorhamphus, Agassiz, Nom. Zool., 1847, — . — Gray, Hand-1., I, 
1869, 3, et Auct. 
Gypagus, Vieill., Analyse, 1816, 21 (includes “ Roi des Vautours, 
Buff.” = Vultur papa, L., and “ Vultur gryffus, Lath.” = V. gryphus, L.) ; 
Enc. Meth., Ill, 1823, 1174 (includes Vultur californianus, Shaw, 
V. gryphus, L., and V. papa, L.). 
< Gryphus, “Is. Geoffr.,” Bonap., Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1854, 530 
(includes V. gryphus and V. californianus). 
(2.) Gyparchus, Gloger. 
< Sarcoramphus , Dtjm., l.c. 
= “ Sarcoramphus , Dum^ril,” Bonap., Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1854, 530 
(restricted to V. papa, L.). 
< Gypagus, Vieill., 11. c. 
|j| Cathartes, Illig., Prodr., 1811, 236 (no type ; includes Vultur papa, 
L., and V. aura, L., in the order named; diagnosis that of the family. 
= “ Cathartes, Illig.,” Gray, Hand-1., I, 1869, 3. — Sharpe, Cat. 
Acc. Brit. Mus., I, 1874, 22. 
— (?) “ Gyparchus, Gloger, Handb. Naturgesch., 1842, 235 ”* (type, 
Vultur papa, L. ?). 
(3.) Pseudogryphus, Ridgway. 
“ Vultur,” Shaw, Nat. Misc., IX, 1797, 1 (nec Linn.). 
“ Cathartes ,” Ranz., Elem. Orn., VII, 1823, 23, et Auct. (nec Illig.). 
“ Sarcoramphus ,” Steph., Gen. Zo6l., XIII, ii, 1826,6 (nec Dumeril).* 
c “ Catharista ,” Gray, Hand-1., I, 1869, 3 (nec Vieill.). 
= Pseudogryphus, Ridgw., in B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B., Ill, Jan., 
1874, 338 (type, Vultur californianus, Shaw). 
* These articles I have not been able to consult in connection with this 
paper. 
