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MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



also shot one in Magnolia, on September 19th, 1877, a female, which has not 

 been preserved. Their stomachs all contained wild-rose hips. I remember 

 seeing a small flock of five or six in the Essex Woods at this time. 



Mr. J. H. Sears, of Salem, tells me that on August 17th, 1904, he watched 

 and followed for nearly a mile at Kent's Island, Newburyport, a pair of Pigeons, 

 which he fully identified as of this species, feeling sure that they were not 

 Mourning Doves. He stood directly under them at one time, as they were 

 perched in the trees. 



137 [316] Zenaidura macroura (Linn.). 

 Mourning Dove. 



Rare summer resident ; May 7 to September 10. 



These dates are imperfect, for Mr. Dearborn ^ in his list of the birds of 

 Durham, N. H., just north of Essex County, gives April to December 15th as 

 his limits for the Mourning Dove. 



138 [325] Cathartes aura (Linn.). 

 Turkey Vulture. 



Accidental visitor from the south. 



There are three records of this bird for the County, and eight or ten others 

 for the State. 



One in young plumage was taken at Annisquam '^ on September 14th, 

 1886, another at Essex ^ on November i6th, 1889, and there is a specimen in 

 the Peabody Academy collection taken at Essex by Mr. W. G. Bannister, 

 in 1896. 



1 Ned Dearborn ; The Birds of Durham and Vicinity, p. 42, 1903. 

 '^H. G. White: Ornithologist and Oologist, vol. 11, p. 157, 1886. 

 ^Wm. Brewster: Auk, vol. 7, p. 204, 1890. 



