AVES. 95 



COLTTMBAE. 



COLUMBIDAE. 



181. Starxoexas cyaxocephala (Linne) Bonaparte. 



Blue-headed quail-dove. 



Columba cyanocephala Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, 

 p. 163. "America." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1842, vol. 5, 

 p. 23, pi. 2S4. 



Thickets and woods; nests among vines. 



Mass. One taken at Brookline, Oct. 10, 1870, probably an 

 escape. 



RAPTORES. SARCORHAMPHI. 



CATHARTIDAE. 



1S2. Cathartes aura septextrioxalis (Wied) Nelson. 

 Turkey vulture ; Turkey buzzard. 



Cathartes septentrionalis Wied, Reise Nord-Araerica, 1839, 

 vol. 1, p. 162. Locality elsewhere given as xear New Harmoxy, 

 Ixdiaxa. 



Cathartes aura Linne. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1840, vol. 1, 

 p. 15, pi. 2. Egg, Bendire, 1892, vol. 1, pi. 4, figs. 1, 3. 



Open country; nests on ground in shallow caves or in hollow logs. 



Me. Accidental visitor at all seasons (eight records). 

 N. H. Accidental visitor: Hampton Falls, April 1882; North 

 Weare, spring 1887. 



Vt. Accidental visitor: Eutaw. 



Mass. Occasional visitor at all seasons. 



R. I. Occasional visitor; four records. May 10-Nov. 



Coxx. Occasional (mainly summer) visitor. April 20-Oct. 18. 



183. Catharista urubu (Vieillot) Yieillot. 



Black vulture; Black-headed buzzard; Carrion crow; Jim 

 crow. 



Vultur urubu Vieill., Hist. nat. ois. Amer. Sept., 1807, vol. 1, 



