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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 record 

 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, 189G. 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. I also saw a fourth specimen 

 in the market on October l()th, which had been killed at Porter's 

 Lake, probably the day before. Mr. Franckljm 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 (Oatharista 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. 



BROAD-WINGED HAWK (Buieo 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, 



