/if 



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in considerable numbers. (See Brewster, Auk II, 1885, 80-84.) 

 Western birds have at different times been turned out in Barn- 

 stable and Berkshire Counties, where some, or their descendants, 

 still survive. (See beyond, under "4. Introduced species.") 



*155. Ectopistes migratorillS. PASSENGER PIGEON. Irre- 

 gular summer resident, not generally common. Has greatly de- 

 creased in numbers during the last twenty to fifty years. 



*156. Zenaidura macroura. MOURNING DOVE. Common 

 summer resident. 



[157.] Cathartes aura. TURKEY VULTURE. Accidental. 

 Two were taken in the State in 1863 (Samuels, Agr. Mass., Secy's 

 Rep. 1863, App., p. xviii). Seen in Waltham, August, 1867 (May- 

 nard, Nat. Guide, 1870, 137*). 



There are numerous Connecticut records (see Merriam, Rev. 

 Bds. Conn. 1877, 91; Sage, Orn. and Ool., VII, 141), and it has 

 been recorded from Hampton Falls, N. H. (Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, VII, 1882, 184). Maine records are Calais (Verrill, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., IX., 1862, 122), Standish, Cumberland County 

 (Smith, Forest and Stream, XX, No. 2, Feb. 8, 1883, 26), Freyburg, 

 (Gushee, ibid., XX, 1883, 245), Buxton (Brown, Proc. Portland 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., 1882), and Grand Menan (Moses, Forest and 

 Stream, V, No. 3, Aug. 26, 1875). 



[158.] Catharista atrata. BLACK VULTURE. Accidental. 

 Swampscott, November, 1850 (Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., I, 1856, 

 223); Gloucester, Sept. 28, 1863 (Allen, ibid., IV., 1864, 81); 

 Hudson (Allen, Am. Nat., Ill, 1870, 646). Maine records are 

 Calais (Boardman, Am. Nat., Ill, 1869, 498), and Campobello 

 Island, August, 1879 (Deane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, 1880, 63). 

 A Vermont record is Woodbury, July, 1884 (Graham, Random 

 Notes on Nat. Hist, I, 1884, No. 9, 4). 



[159.] Elanoides forficatus. SWALLOW-TAILED KITE. 

 Accidental. Seen at Whately, about 1868 (Allen, Am. Nat., Ill, 

 1870, 645); taken at West Newberry, Sept. 1882 (Coues, apud 

 Newcomb, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VIII, 1883, 61). Dr. Merriam 



* Dr. Coues says at the end of his account of this species in " New England Bird Life " (II, 

 1883, 137), u and Mr. Purdie's manuscript makes us aware of two later Massachusetts instances." 

 Mr. Purdie writes me that u Massachusetts " should read "Maine," Dr. Coues having misunder- 

 stood his note. These two Maine cases are on the authority of Mr. Boardman, and appear to 

 have not yet been published. 



