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slate color; bill blackish above with reddish spot near the basal cutting 
edge, mandible dusky horn color ; feet dusky olive greyish. 
Recorded also from Suapure and from Nicare on the Caura 
River by Berlepsch and Hartert. 
PioNiTEs MELANOCEPHALA (Linnaeus). 
Psittacus melanocephalus L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 1766. p. 149. 
Pionites melanoccphala Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 1 10. 
Native name Calzoncito. Not common. Observed onK- on the 
upper river, about Mundua.po and Nericagua. 
Eye orange yellow; bill slate color; feet dusky blackish slate. 
Collected on the Caura River, also by both Andre and Klages 
(Berlepsch and Hartert). 
EuciNETus CAiCA (Latham). 
Psittacus caicus Latham, Ind. Orn. i: (1790) : p. 128 ("Cayana"). 
The American Museum collection contains two specimens from La 
Union, Caura River. 
Gypopsitta vulturina (Kuhl). 
Psittacus vulturinus Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. 1820. p. 62. 
Gypopsitta vulturina Berlepsch & Hartert, p. no. 
Not observed on the Orinoco. 
Berlepsch and Hartert record specimens from Suapure and from 
La Pricion on the Caura. 
CATHARTIDAE— THE AMERICAN VULTURES. 
Berlepsch and Hartert list only a single species sent by the writer 
from Caicara. Field work and a study of the larger series of specimens 
in this museum, together with material from the American Museum of 
Natural History and from the U. S. National Museum, has convinced 
the writer that there are at least two, and possibly a third species of 
Cathartes found along the shores of the Orinoco. I have not had access, 
however, to sufficient authentic material, — material with reliable data, — 
to work out the relationship to my own satisfaction. I brought back 
with me eleven specimens, representing two c^uite distinct and well 
marked species, both of which are resident in the region under con- 
sideration and are distinguished by the native Venezuelans who call 
them respectively Zamiiro Oripopo dc Cabcsa Colorado and Zamuro 
