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.Int. Mr. Walter Hoxie found the Black Vulture nesting under a dense growth of 

 No attempt was made at forming a nest, or even excavating a hollow. The 

 are laid far In under the intertwining stems of the yucca and in the semi- 

 shadows were quite hard to be seen. Mr. Hoxie states that the parent birds have 

 the habit of always following the same path in leaving and approaching the nesting 

 place. By these paths, which were often winding, he was able to discover the 

 effB* Both sexes assist in incubation and two eggs constitute the nest complement. 

 Mr. Hoxie never observed a bird sitting on a single egg, and so far as he was able 

 to determine the period of incubation is nearly thirty days; eggs were taken from 

 May 2 to May 26. He states that Mr. Alfred Cuthbert took a set of three eggs in 1S84. 







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HUACK VuLTi'K* (From Brrlmi). 



The efgs are gent-rally broadly elliptical-ovate in shape and similar In color to those 

 of the Turkey Vulture bluish-white, blotched and spotted with very dark brown 

 and umber not no densely marked as those of Catlmrtrs mini : average size 3.10x2.04. 

 Mr. Crandall'* series of this bird's eggs consists of twenty-four sets, forty-eight eggs, 

 mostly taken in Toxas. some in Mexico, between February 28 and June 5. The 

 site of this series Is 2.99x1.99 inches. 



387. SWALLOW-TAILED KITE. Klannide* f<ir/irntn* (Linn.) Geog. Dist. 

 Tropical and warm-temperate parts of continental America, north regularly up UK 

 Mississippi Valley to Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, etc. Casually east to PennsyK 

 and Southern New England 



