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been largely owing to starvation. The bird was brought to Mr. 
Egan’s store, where I examined it before it was skinned. 
It is doubtful if there is another well authenticated reeord 
of the occurrence of this bird in temperate America, for Mr. 
Ridgway in his Manual places a query after “ Long Island” in 
the list of localities where it has been met. 
MourninG Dove (Zenaidura macroura). Several Mourning 
Doves were taken in Halifax County during October, 1896, Mr. 
Searle, taxidermist, had three specimens: one killed about 
October 2nd; another shot at Terence Bay, about October 6th ; 
and a third killed about the 9th. T also saw a fourth specimen 
in the market on October 10th, which had been killed at Porter’s 
Lake, probably the day before. Mr. Francklyn of Halifax pur- 
chased a specimen in the market on September 28th, 1895. It 
had likely been killed on the previous day. Still another speci- 
men was shot at Canning, N. S., by C. R. Dickie, on November 
4th, 1895. 
BLACK VULTURE (Catharista atrata). On January 12th, 
1896,a Black Vulture was killed at Pugwash, Cumberland Co., 
N. S., and two days later was brought to Mr. Egan. I examined 
it after it had been mounted and identified it as the above species. 
It measured as follows: wing 17.75 ins., tail about 7.50, culmen 
.93, tarsus 3.13, middle toe without claw 3. 
The occurrence of this bird in our limits is remarkable, and 
is doubly so when we consider the period of the year in which 
it was taken. It is regularly found as far north as North 
Carolina, and has been met as a casual visitor in the New 
England States, and Chamberlain (Nuttall’s Ornithology, 1891,) 
records that it has even been killed on Grand Manan in the Bay 
of Fundy. With this exception, it has not hitherto been met 
with in Canada. 
BRrOAD-WINGED Hawk (Buteo latissimus). In September, 
1894, Mr. Purcell showed me a hawk which I identified as a 
young bird of the above species. It had been shot at Windsor, 
