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90 BULLETIN 133^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
nizing that this name denotes a red-headed turkey vulture, and as
such it is the oldest name available for the small vulture of eastern
and northern South America. Oenofs pernigra Sharpe,*"* described
from Guiana, Amazonia, and Peru, must be placed as a synonym
here.
CATHARTES AURA JOTA (Molina).
Yulcur (sic) Jota Molina, Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chili, 1782, p. 265. (Chile.)
The form that must bear this name is similar in color to ruficolUs
Spix, but is larger (wing from 530 to 550 mm.). It ranges from
the Straits of Magellan through Chile north through the Andes
apparently to Colombia. C. a. ^neridionalis Swann''^ must be con-
sidered a synonym of Molina's jota.
CATHARTES AURA FALKLANDICA (Sharpc).
Oenups falldandica Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1874, p. 27.
(Falkland Islands.)
No specimens of the turkey vulture from the Falkland Islands
are at hand. From descriptions it is similar in size to C. a. ruficoUis,
but is distinguished by distinct grayish margins on the median
wing coverts and secondaries. According to Swann,''^ the Falkland
Island vulture ranges from the Falkland Islands north along the
coast of southern Chile.
A female turkey vulture secured on September 11, 1920, at Kilometer
80, west of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, has a wing measurement
of 500 mm. and so is representative of the form here called
ruflcollis. Additional notes assumed to belong under this form which
follow are not validated by specimens; Vera, Santa Fe, July 5, 1920;
Las Palmas, Chaco, July 14, 17, 21, and 26; Riacho Pilaga, Formosa,
August 19; Kilometer 80, west of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, September
11, 15, 16, 17, and 20; San Vicente, Uruguay, January 26,
28, and February 2, 1921 ; Lazcano, Uruguay, February 7 and 9.
In Paraguay this species was known as urubu capini, literally
translated as bald-headed buzzard.
The following records may pertain to the present form or may
refer to C. a. jota (Molina) : General Roca, Rio Negro, November
23 to 29, 1920 (fairly common) ;
Zapala, Neuquen, December 7 to 9;
Tunuyan, Mendoza, March 27; Tapia, Tucuman, April 12; Tafi
Viejo, Tucuman, April 17. The status of the turkey vultures from
central Argentina must remain in abeyance until specimens can be
measured and examined. It is probable that jota comes north into
northern Patagonia if not farther, and that it also occurs through
8«Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1874, p. 26.
«TSyn. Accipitres, ed. 2, pt. 1, Sept. 28, 1921, p. 3.
*8 Who, in the reference just cited, p. 4, gives this form as iota Molina.