ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



Catharista urubu (Vieill.). 

 Black Vulture. 



Casual visitor from the South Atlantic States. 



A record (Auk, XXIII, 1906, 222) of a Black Vulture taken by Mr. J. H. 

 Storer, Jr., in Waltham, Massachusetts, on September 15, 1905, appears only 

 just in time for mention in the closing pages of this Memoir. " When first 

 seen, at dusk, the vulture was sitting on the top of a tall dead pine tree, on the 

 edge of some woods, about two miles north of the town." The bird was shot 

 by Mr. Storer as it attempted to fly over him, and the specimen is now in his 

 collection. It is the first Black Vulture known to have occurred in the 

 Cambridge Region and the sixth that has been killed in Massachusetts. The 

 other five birds were taken respectively at Swampscott in November, 1850; 

 at Gloucester on September 28, 1863; at Hudson, shortly before 1870; at 

 Plymouth on July 5, 1890; and at Taunton on October 5, 1902. 



Barred Owl. Syrnium varium (Barton). — Just as the last sheets of 

 this Memoir are going to press I learn from Mr. J. H. Hardy, Jr., that a pair 

 of Barred Owls bred in Belmont, not far from Arlington Heights, "about 

 twenty years ago." Mr. Hardy (who was then only fourteen years of age) 

 with two other boys found three young Owls, well grown and partly feathered, 

 but unable to fly, perched in a big elm just below a long, vertical slit in the side 

 of the trunk that gave access to a generous-sized cavity which contained the 

 nest. The old birds had been seen before this, flying about near the elm which, 

 with several other large trees of the same kind, grew in a swampy hollow on 

 high and, for the most part, open ground, not far from rather extensive woods. 

 The young Owls were taken and distributed among the three boys who, how- 

 ever, failed to rear any of them to maturity. 



