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Speciation in
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vultures
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The genus
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<emphasis id="B9041000FFAEB653FEC0B163D0A5F80F" box="[276,438,1905,1929]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="582">Sarcoramphus</emphasis>
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is treated as monotypic in standard reference works (e.g.
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,
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, Dickinson &amp; Remsen 2013); no accepted fossil species are known.
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<emphasis id="B9041000FFAEB653FB85B187D421F82B" box="[1105,1330,1941,1965]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="582">Sarcoramphus papa</emphasis>
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, the only contemporary species, occurs mainly in lowland forests of northern South
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and of Central
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, although individuals may be encountered in treeless areas as well (
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). However, indications exist that extinct
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species may have lived south and north of the present range of the genus.
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First,
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identified from the late Pleistocene of Camet Norte, Buenos Aires Province,
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, several bones from a single individual of a
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vulture. The bones were found in a deposit C- 14-dated to 24,550±600 yr BP (
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Pardiñas
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1998
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).
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Pardiñas
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(1998)
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reconstructed the local paleoenvironment as semiarid-arid steppes.
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challenged their view, arguing that the presence of a
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<emphasis id="B9041000FFA9B654FEE6B762D0C7FE0E" box="[306,468,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Sarcoramphus</emphasis>
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species was evidence for the presence of forests. They rejected the possibility that the recorded individual was a vagrant and suggested that it originated from a local population. However, the record, as they presented it, allows for both interpretations. If the specimen indeed originated from a local population, then further research is needed to assess its taxonomic status. It is not impossible that an extinct
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species inhabited the steppes of
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(and adjacent parts of South
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) in the late Pleistocene.
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Second,
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suggested that an extinct
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<emphasis id="B9041000FFA9B654FCBCB436D519FDBA" box="[872,1034,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Sarcoramphus</emphasis>
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species inhabited the southeastern
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(in agreement with most 19th -century authors, but against the opinion of most 20th -century authors; see above for citations). They based their opinion on a written account by William Bartram, who travelled in the region in the 1780s (
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), a painting of a captive individual made in the 1730s in
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by
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, and arguably on a description of an “eagle” from Louisiana by Le Page (1752: 125126, 1758: 109, 1763: 7576). [Note that
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incorrectly called this chronicler DuPratz and that they did not refer to his
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works.]
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suggested that
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<emphasis id="B9041000FFA9B654FDBBB531D247FCBC" box="[623,852,803,827]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Sarcoramphus sacer</emphasis>
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was recorded from Florida (Bartram) and Louisiana (Le Page). LePage's (1752, 1758, 1763) record from Louisiana, where he lived from
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, is uncertain, as noted by
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, because his description of the bird cannot be unambiguously interpreted as that of
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.
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However, the existence of both a “southern” and a “northern”
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species can be doubted. First, the specimen recorded from the late Pleistocene of
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may indeed belong to
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as suggested by
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FF68B5E8D0F6FB95" author="Noriega" box="[188,485,1018,1043]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="Noriega, J. I. &amp; Areta, J. I. (2005) First record of Sarcoramphus Dumeril 1806 (Ciconiiformes: Vulturidae) from the Pleistocene of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 20, 73 - 79. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jsames. 2005.05.004" type="journal article" year="2005">Noriega and Areta (2005)</bibRefCitation>
. Secondly, Bartrams (1791) description of the bird might have been inaccurate (as suggested by most 20th -century authors; see above for citations). Other 18th -century authors who described the avifauna of the American Southeast did not record such a bird (
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FCB1B257D517FBD8" author="Catesby" box="[869,1028,1093,1118]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="Catesby, M. (1732 [1731]) The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands - Histoire naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, &amp; les Isles Bahama. Vol. 1. [The Author], London, [4] + xii + xliv + 100 pp." type="book" year="1732">Catesby 1732</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FBC4B254D558FBD8" author="Catesby" box="[1040,1099,1094,1118]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="Catesby, M. (1743) The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands - Histoire naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, &amp; les Isles Bahama. Vol. 2. The Author, London, [2] + 100 + 20 + [7] pp." type="journal article" year="1743">1743</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FB83B254D5E5FBD8" author="Dumont" box="[1111,1270,1093,1118]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="Dumont de Montigny, J. - F. B. (1753) Memoires historiques sur la Louisiane contenant ce qui est arrive de plus memorable depuis l'annee 1687 jusqu'a present; avec l'etablissment de la Colonie Francoise dans cette province de l'Amerique Septentrionale sous le direction de la Compagnie des Indes; le climat, la nature &amp; les productions de ce pays; l'origine et la Religion des Sauvages qui y habitent, leur moeurs &amp; leurs coutumes, &amp; c. Vol. 1. C. J. B. Bauche, Paris, x + 261 pp." type="book" year="1753">Dumont 1753</bibRefCitation>
: 8792;
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FA8CB254D1C0FB04" author="Bossu" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="Bossu, J. B. (1768) Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales. Vol. 2. Le Jay, Paris, 264 pp." type="book" year="1768">Bossu 1768</bibRefCitation>
: 172178; see also
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FE7FB278D354FB04" author="McAtee" box="[427,583,1129,1154]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="McAtee, W. L. (1950) The North American birds of George Edwards. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 2, 194 - 205. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3366 / jsbnh. 1950.2.6.194" type="journal article" year="1950">McAtee 1950</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FD85B27BD388FB04" author="McAtee" box="[593,667,1129,1154]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="McAtee, W. L. (1957 a) The North American birds of Mark Catesby and Eleazar Albin. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 3, 177 - 194. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3366 / jsbnh. 1957.3.4.177" type="journal article" year="1957" yearSuffix="a">1957a</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FD74B27BD3BCFB04" author="McAtee" box="[672,687,1129,1154]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="McAtee, W. L. (1957 b) The North American birds of Linnaeus. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 3, 291 - 300. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3366 / jsbnh. 1957.3.5.291" type="journal article" year="1957" yearSuffix="b">b</bibRefCitation>
). Albins (1738) painting has been said to be incorrectly colored by his contemporaries (
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FEAEB29FD332FB20" author="Edwards" box="[378,545,1165,1190]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="Edwards, G. (1743) A natural history of birds. Vol. 1. The Author, London, xxiv + 53 pp. + 52 pls." type="book" year="1743">Edwards 1743</bibRefCitation>
: 2; see also
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FD7DB29FD251FB20" author="Brisson" box="[681,834,1165,1190]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="Brisson, M. J. (1760) Ornithologie - Ornithologia. Vol. 1. Paris, Cl. Jean Baptiste Bauche, xxiv + 526 + lxxix pp. [Parallel text in French and Latin]" type="book chapter" year="1760">Brisson 1760</bibRefCitation>
: 471). Finally, no
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bones were found in the Holocene deposits of the region to the best of my knowledge, although those of
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and
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<emphasis id="B9041000FFA9B654FAF9B2A3D488FB4F" box="[1325,1435,1201,1225]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="583">Cathartes</emphasis>
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vultures were (e.g.
<bibRefCitation id="EFE1B1E3FFA9B654FEBAB2C7D308FB68" author="Brodkorb" box="[366,539,1237,1262]" pageId="4" pageNumber="583" refString="Brodkorb, P. (1964) Catalogue of fossil birds: Part 2 (Anseriformes through Galliformes). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences, 8, 195 - 335." type="journal article" year="1964">Brodkorb 1964</bibRefCitation>
,
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).
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