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ern border of the United States, as far west as Manitoba and 

 the Dakotas." 



Genus ZENAIDURA Bonaparte, 1854. 



Zenaidura macroura (Linnaeus). Mourning Dove. 



Columba macroura LINNAEUS, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 164 (par). 

 Columba carolincnsis LINN^US, S. N., ed. 12, I, 1766, 286. 

 Zenaidura carolincnsis BONAPAETE, Consp. II, 1854, 84. 

 Zenaidura macroura RIDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 355. 

 Popular synonyms: TURTLE DOVE. AMERICAN TURTLE DOVE. CARO- 

 LINA DOVE. COMMON DOVE. 



A common summer resident. The favorite nesting sites of 

 this species are in the hedges of osage orange (Madura auran- 

 tiaca), or on the ground. Of late years, I have found it nesting 

 quite frequently on the ground in the higher fields of our area. 

 It arrives early in March and departs the last of October. Mr. 

 E. W. Nelson says:* "Straggling parties are occasionally ob- 

 served during the winter. In many places this species becomes 

 semi-domesticated, breeding in the trees in the yard and showing 

 but little fear when approached." 



The range of the Mourning Dove covers the whole of tem- 

 perate North America, from the southern part of the British Pos- 

 sessions southward to the Isthmus of Panama and the West 

 Indies. Its breeding range is coincident with its North American 

 Range. 



ORDER RAPTORES: BIRDS OF PREY. 



FAMILY CATHARTID^E: AMERICAN VULTURES. 



Genus CATHARTES Illiger, 1811. 



Cathartes aura (Linnaeus). Turkey Vulture. 



Vultur aura LINN^US, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 86. 



Cathartes aura ILLIGER, Prodromus, 1811, 236. 



Rhlnogryphus aura RIDGWAY, in Hist. N. Amer. B., Ill, 1874, 344. 



Popular synonyms: BUZZARD. TURKEY BUZZARD. CARION CROW. 



While the Turkey Vulture is a common summer resident in 

 the southern portion of Illinois, it is but a rare visitant within 

 our area. Some years ago, Mr. Harry Phillips shot one of these 

 birds on his farm at Worth, Illinois, about fourteen miles from 

 Chicago. This individual was sitting on the top of a tree in a 

 pasture, and Mr. Phillips, observing that it was a species un- 

 known to him, shot it and presented the skin to The Chicago 



*Birds of Northeastern Illinois, Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 121. 



