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St. Lucas). Bryant, Zoe, IT. 1891, 188, 189 (San José del Cabo). BrnpirRE, 
Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, pt. I. 1892, 150 (eggs taken near Cape St. Lucas 
by Xantus and at San José del Cabo by Belding). 
This little Dove is resident in the Cape Region, where it appears to be quite 
as numerous and almost as widely distributed as the White-winged Dove. It 
is apparently uncommon among the higher mountains, however, for Mr. 
Frazar saw only one or two on the Sierra de la Laguna in spring and none 
during his visit in December. He met with it in the greatest numbers at San 
José del Cabo, where a nest containing two fresh eggs was found as late as 
October i8. As it was breeding at La Paz early in February and at most of 
the places visited during the spring and summer there would seem to be only 
three months in the year which are not included in its season of reproduction. 
A nest taken at Pierce’s Ranch on July 19 was nearly flat, about four inches in 
width across the top, and composed chiefly of weed stalks. The two egys 
which it contained are dead white in color and measure respectively: .86X .64 
and .82 * .64. 
The Mexican Ground Dove is apparently not at all common in the parts of 
the Peninsula which Mr. Bryant visited, but more were seen about Comondu 
than elsewhere. The only specimen observed “on Santa Margarita Island was 
taken January 26, 1888, when it came to a tank for water.” 
The range of this Ground Dove extends along the Pacific coast from Lower 
California to Central America. The bird is also said to occur casually in 
California. 
Cathartes aura (Lrny.). 
TURKEY VULTURE. 
Cathartes aura Bretpine, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 544 (Cape Region), 548 
(San José); VI. 1883, 350 ( Victoria Mts.). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 
2d ser., II. 1889, 278 (Cape Region). 
Although no mention of the Turkey Vulture occurs in any of the papers 
relating to Xantus’s experience, the bird at this day is found at all seasons 
throughout the southern extremity of Lower California, where, as well as nearly 
everywhere in the central and northern portions of the Peninsula, it is an 
abundant and familiar species. 
“They were common in Magdalena Island, frequenting the beach where ¢attle 
and turtles were slaughtered. On Santa Margarita Island I counted twenty, early 
one morning, perched on the tops of the giant cacti. The offal from a turtle killed 
at midday attracted fourteen buzzards in less than three hours. During an ex- 
ceedingly hot day I saw a number of them gathered about a water-hole at Pozo 
Grande. Mr. Anthony says that they range in summer from sea-level to an alti- 
tude of 11,000 feet, but are confined to the sea-coast and lower hills in winter ” 
(Bryant). 
