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County Records. — Androscoggiu, "rare niigraut" (Johuson) ; Cumber- 

 land, "none iu teu years" (Mead) ; Fraukliu, "rare migrant" (Richards) ; 

 Hancock, "I am informed by old hunters that this sjiecies formerlj'- 

 occurred abundantly iu this country, and also that they nested iu great 

 numbers, none have been seen for ten years" (Knight) ; Kennebec, (given 

 iu Hamliu's List of the Birds of Waterville, Report of the Secretary of 

 Maine Board of Agriculture for 1865, pp. 168-173) ; Knox, "rare in sum- 

 mer"' (Racklift) ; Oxford, "rare migrant, specimens observed by dift"erent 

 persous iu the fall of 1891" (Johnson) ; Penobscot, "formerly abundant, 

 no records of late" (Knight) ; Piscataquis, "rare, last seen in 1884" 

 (Homer) ; Washington, "not uncommon formerl}^, all gone now" (Board- 

 man) ; York, "last seen iu September, 1885" (Adams). 



Genus ZP:NAIDURA Bonaparte. 



139. (316). Zenaiclura macroura (it»n.). Mourning Dove. 

 A very rare summer resident of the southern counties of the 



state, but there are, to my knowledge, no records of the species 

 having been observed nesting within our limits. 



County Records. — Androscoggin, (Pike) ; Cumberland, "probably a 

 rare summer resident"" (Brown's Cat. Birds of Portland, p. 23); Knox, 

 "rare in summer" (Racklift) ; Penobscot, "it has occurred on the Maine 

 State College campus iu late summer" (Prof. F. L. HarvejO ; Sagadahoc, 

 "scattering, spring and fall" (Spinney) ; Washington, "accidental" 

 (Boardman). 



Order RAPTORES. Birds of Prey. 



Suborder SACORHAMPHI. American Vultures. 



Family CATHARTID^. American Vultures. 

 Genus CATHARTES Illiger. 



140. (325). Cathartes aura (-LiHH.). Turkey Vulture. 



An accidental visitor to the state, of which four specimens have 

 been taken. 



County Records. — Cumberland, "one at Standish in summer of 1874" 

 (Smith, Forest and Stream, Vol. 20, p. 26) : Oxford, "one at East Frye- 

 burg" (R. A. Gushee, Forest and Stream for 1883, p. 245) ; Penobscot, 

 "one seen near Bangor, at Whitney's Hill, he sat a long time with his 

 wings stretched up above his head, as the Eagle is represented on the 

 "buzzard dollar" ; I have seen hundreds of them so there is not a shade 

 of doubt as to the identity" (Hardy) ; Washington, "very rare, one speci- 

 men" (Boardman) ; York, "one killed in Buxton, in December, 1876" 

 (Brown's Cat. Birds of Portland, p. 23). 



