. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 10. CEXOPS. •SO Hah. The same as that of the genus. (/, h. Ad. St. c. Pull. St. d. c? ad. sk. e. Ad. sk. /. Skeleton. N. America. Costa Rica. Chili. Buenos Ayres. J. J. Audubou, Esq. [P.]. O. Salvin, Esq. [ E. C. Reed, Esq. [C.]. Purchased. Zool. Society of London. 10. (ENOPS*. Catharista et Cathartes. and. Wing of Q^liiops aura. Range. The whole of S. America and the Falkland Islands, Cen- tral America and the whole of N. America as far as 49° N". lat., not reaching quite as high on the eastern side ; Cuha and Jamaica, but not i
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 10. CEXOPS. •SO Hah. The same as that of the genus. (/, h. Ad. St. c. Pull. St. d. c? ad. sk. e. Ad. sk. /. Skeleton. N. America. Costa Rica. Chili. Buenos Ayres. J. J. Audubou, Esq. [P.]. O. Salvin, Esq. [ E. C. Reed, Esq. [C.]. Purchased. Zool. Society of London. 10. (ENOPS*. Catharista et Cathartes. and. Wing of Q^liiops aura. Range. The whole of S. America and the Falkland Islands, Cen- tral America and the whole of N. America as far as 49° N". lat., not reaching quite as high on the eastern side ; Cuha and Jamaica, but not in S. Domingo or Porto Rico. Key to the Species. a. Smaller; wing not exceeding 25 inches in length. a'. Shafts of primaries brown above. «". Plumage black, wings washed with brown ; head red aura, p. 25. b". Plumage all black; head yellow pernigra, p. 26. c". Plumage black, wings washed externally with ashy grey; head pink falklandica, p. 27. h'. Shafts of primaries white above and below; head orange uruhitinga, p. 28. b. Larger; -sving 30-31 inches long californiana, p. 28. 1. (Enops auraf. The Turkey Buzzard, Catesby, N. H. Carol, i. p. 6, pi. 6 (1731). Vultur aura, Linn. S. K. i. p. 122 (1766); Vteill. Ois. Am. Sept. pi. 2 bis (1807) ; Wils. Am. Orn. ix. p. 96, pi. Lxxv. fig. 2 (1814). Vultur iota, Molina, Saggio St. JV. Chili, p. 235 (1786). * oli'os, vinnm ; (5>//, facies. t What the Turkey Vulture of Trinidad (Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 2, 1866) may be I do not know; but it is not improbably the true (E. aura, which may range VOL. I, D. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. [Birds]. London
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