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CATn.\RTES URUBITINGA Pelzeln. 
Cathartcs iirubitinga Pelz., Sitz. Akad. Wien. XLIV. p. 7 (1861, ex 
Natt. M. S.) ; Berlepsch, Ibis. 1884. p. 437 (Angostura). 
Cathartes burrovianus Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. IX. 1902. 
p. Ill (in part). 
This, the Zanmro Oripopo dc Cabeza AinariUa of the Venezue- 
lans along the Orinoco, is much less common than C. pernigra. Its 
habits so far as I have observed are identical with those of the pre- 
ceding species and the Turkey Vulture of the United States. Below 
Altagracia on the Orinoco, no specimens were secured and the species 
was not observed; but Berlepsch (/. c.) has recorded a specimen from 
Ciudad Bolivar ("Angostura") and a specimen from the U. S. National 
Museum collection, collected at Georgetown, British Guiana, indicates 
that its distribution includes the hot coast region as well as the interior 
savanna districts. 
The accompanying sketch of the head of the adult female taken 
at Caicara, River Orinoco, Venezuela, August 9, 1898, (No. 11099 
Cherrie Collection^), reproduced from my field notes, will serve to 
indicate the distribution of color on the head better than any mere 
written description. The sketch of the head of an adult male (No. 
14666 Cherrie Collection) taken at Caicara. May 6, 1907, is also repro- 
duced from my field notes and shows a somewhat different pattern 
of coloration, but whether the diiference shown would be constant in 
a scries I am unable to say. 
The plumage is blackish above, heavily washed with purplish 
steel blue and a dark greenish bronze, more or less iridescent — the 
greenish bronze shading predominafing; below, the general color 
iln old. much worn plumage, the difference in color between the quills freshly moulted and those 
old and much worn is very striking. The cream-colored crown patch and nape so prominent in other 
examples is very pale. 
^Specimen sent to the Rothschild Museum, Tring. England. 
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