1895] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 299 



Order RAPTORES BIRDS OF PREY. 



Family CATHARTID^E American Vultures. 



Cathartes aura (325). Turkey Vulture. 



Resident, common. 14 sets of 2 eggs are recorded from 

 April 19 ('82, W. L. Amoss, Fallston) to May 30 ('91, Stabler, 

 Sandy Springs). I have several times heard of 3 eggs, but 

 never could verify the statement. The eggs, nest there is none, 

 are placed in hollow prostrate logs, hollow stumps, under rocks, 

 stones, or bushes, and in one case under the worn side of an old 

 straw stack. Given as resident at Hagerstown (Small), but 

 only as casual at Cumberland (Shriver) ; at Vale Summit I only 

 saw 3 in 10 days (June 5 to 14, '95). 



While usually not noticed by other birds, I saw a crow chase 

 one on May 8, '92, and a Fish Hawk chase another on May 30, '93. 



Cath arista atrata (326). Black Vulture. 



"North, regularly to North Carolina, irregularly or casually 

 to Maine, New York, etc." (Manual, 222). "Rarely breeds 

 North of 36" (Bendire, 165). "On March 30, '95, at Ken- 

 sington, Md., Mr. J. D. Figgins saw 4 birds which he supposed 

 were of this species. He had never seen the Black Vulture in 

 life, but was familiar with the other large birds known to occur 

 here and from his description of the actions of the birds, I have 

 no doubt they were really of this species" (Richmond). 



Family FALCONID.S; Falcons, Hawks, Eagles, etc. 

 Elanoides forficatus (327). Swallow-tailed Kite. 



"On the Atlantic coast its natural limits appear to be the 

 lower portions of Virginia, but it has more than once occurred 

 in the Middle States" (Birds N. W., 332). On April 5, '93, 

 I examined a mounted specimen ; on inquiry I was told it had 

 been shot by Mr. W. T. Levering, Jr., on Maidens Choice Lane, 

 close to Kenwood Station, near Catonsville, Baltimore County, 

 late in the summer (late July or early August) of '89. 



