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records, he has very kindly given me the following information under date 

 of August 9, 1904. 



"Replying to your inquiry relative to the Turkey Buzzard in Maine, I 

 will say that I have the following unquestionable records: One taken at 

 Standish, Cumberland County, in summer of 1874 (cf. Smith, Forest & 

 Stream, Vol. XX, p. 26) ; one taken in Denmark, Oxford County, March, 

 1S82, by Abel Sanborn and now in his possession. (This specimen was 

 recorded by R. A. Gushee in Forest & Stream, for 1883, p. 245, and the 

 same specimen was erroneously recorded as Black Vulture by Smith, For- 

 est & Stream, Vol. XX, p. 285 ; it has, however, been seen within a year 

 bv a number of persons who can vouch that it is a Turkey Vulture, not a 

 Black Vulture). Mr. Boardman had one specimen taken near his home in 

 Calais; one was killed in Buxton in December, 1S76 (cf. Brown, Catalogue 

 Birds of Portland, p. 23). 



"All the above records have been carefully verified by inquiry and 

 examination of specimens by undoubted authorities. A few other records 

 have been found to really refer to the Black Vulture or were not suscepti- 

 ble of verification." 



Mr. Manly Hardy of Brewer, Me., under date of September 8, 1904,. 

 wrote me as follows : — 



" Seeing a Turkey Buzzard is a very unusual thing in this State. 

 Some years ago I saw one at Whitney's Hill, near Bangor. It was in a 

 small ash tree in a large open field. It was late in November, after all 

 the Hawks were gone. It was a warm sunny day and he sat with his 

 wings stretched above his head just like the one on the ' Buzzard dollar.' 

 I have seen hundreds of Buzzards but I have never seen any other bird sit 

 in this way. I know of two cases of their having been caught in bear- 

 traps. The hunters did not know what they were but told me of their 

 bare red heads and white hills, so there could be no question of identity." 



Mr. G. A. Boardman in his ' Catalogue of the Birds found in the 

 vicinity of Calais, Maine,' etc., published in 1862, records one specimen 

 as referred to by Mr. Knight, but in a copy of this list which he sent me 

 in 1872, with additions and corrections up to date, under Turkey Buzzard 

 he has interlined, " 2 since." This last record therefore makes the tenth 

 for the State. — Ruthven Deane, Chicago, III. 



A Correction. — In my list of the birds of Margarita Island, Venezuela 

 (Auk, XIX, p. 261), I included Buteo albicaudatus Vieill., saying that I 

 obtained one specimen, an immature female. Buteo albicaudatus was 

 fairly common near the coast, and the bird I found nailed to a tree near 

 El Valle was of this species ; but the specimen brought back proves to be 

 a young female of Parabuteo unicitictus (Temm.), the southern form of 

 Harris's Hawk. — -Austin H. Clark, Boston, Mass. 



The Gray Sea Eagle (Haliaetus albicilla) in British Columbia. — In a 

 small collection of bird-skins bought in the fall of 1903 by Dr. Dwight and 



