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27. iEgialitis meloda. Piping Plover. — A set of four eggs in my 

 collection was taken at Beach Haven, N. J., June 8, 1886 (recorded by 

 Stone, 'Birds of N. J.', p. 146). I have no more recent record. 



28. Colinus virginianus virginianus. Bob-white. — Formerly 

 breeding plentifully in the lower parts of both states, and rarely even as 

 far north as Warren and Pike Counties, Pa. Now very much reduced in 

 numbers and locally distributed, more abundant in southern New Jersey 

 than elsewhere. Data on three New Jersey nests are as follow: 1. Ocean 

 Co., N. J., July 6, 1914; seventeen eggs. 2. Ocean Co., N. J., June 14, 

 1915; nineteen eggs. 3. Cape May Co., N. J., May 27, 1916; sixteen 

 eggs. 



29. Bonasa umbellus umbellus. Ruffed Grouse. — Common in 

 the mountainous districts of Pennsylvania, breeding from Warren to Pike 

 Counties on the north, and from Franklin to Bedford Counties on the 

 south. Rare in the well populated sections. In southern New Jersey it 

 occurs rather uncommonly but I have found it nesting in Cape May County. 

 Data on seventeen Pennsylvania nests give: average set, 10 or 11 (6-15); 

 average date, May 4 (April 26- June 12). 



30. Meleagris gallopavo silvestris. Wild Turkey. — Scarce but 

 regular breeder in the wilder parts of south central Pennsylvania, from 

 Center, Clearfield and Lycoming Counties to Somerset and Franklin. I 

 have found them fairly common in Stone Valley, Huntington County. 

 Data on three nests are appended : 1. Vail, Blair Co., Pa., May 17, 1912; 

 six eggs. 2. Greenwood Furnace, Huntington Co., Pa., May 20, 1915; 

 twelve eggs. 3. Bear Meadows, Center Co., Pa., June 22, 1916; twelve 

 eggs. 



[Ectopistes migratorius. Wild Pigeon. — Inquiries in Pike and 

 Wayne Counties, Pa., have brought forth the fact that the last breeding 

 in the beech woods there occurred in the late seventies.] 



31. Zenaidura macroura carolinensis. Mourning Dove. — Very 

 common over the greater part of both states but much rarer in the northern 

 mountainous districts of Pennsylvania. Data on thirty-one nests give: 

 average set, 2; average date — for first sets, April 15 (earliest, April 4); 

 for second sets, June 10 (latest, August 4). 



32. Cathartes aura septentrionalis. Turkey Vulture. — Very 

 common in southern New Jersey as well as in Delaware and Chester 

 Counties, Pennsylvania, and less so in Montgomery. Plentiful in the 

 Susquehanna valley as far north as Dauphin and Perry Counties and 

 breeding regularly but less abundantly to Northumberland and Center 

 Counties. I have not found it west of the Alleghanies. Data on nine 

 nests give: average set, 2; average date, May 1 (April 20-May 26). 



33. Circus hudsonius. Marsh Hawk. — Regular and fairly com- 

 mon breeder on the salt marshes of the New Jersey coast, where I have 

 found twelve nests in Ocean, Burlington and Atlantic Counties and have 

 observed the birds in summer from Cape May to Newark. It nests rarely 

 in central Pennsylvania, in Center and Huntington Counties, and more 



