AVES. 95 



COLrMBAE. 



COLUMBIDAE. 



181. Starxoexas cyaxocepbala (Linne) Bonaparte. 



Blue -headed quail-dove. 



Columba ci/anocephala Linne, SysT. nat., ed. 10, 17.58^ vol. 1, 

 p. 163. ''A:merica." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1S42, vol. 5, 

 p. 23, pi. 284. 



Thickets and woods; nests among A'ines. 



^NLi.ss. — One taken at Brookline, Oct. 10, 1870, probably an 

 escape. 



EAPTORES. SARCORHAMPHI. 



CATH^\ETID.\E. 



182. Cathl\rtes aura septextrioxalis OYied) Xelson. 



Turkey vulture ; Turkey buzzard. 



Catharfes sepientrionalis Wied, Reise Xord-Ainerica, 1839, 

 vol. 1, p. 162. Locality elsewhere given as xear New ELarmoxy, 



IXT)IAXA. 



Cathartes aura Linne. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1840, vol. 1, 

 p. 1.5, pi. 2. Egg, Bendire, 1892, vol. 1, pi. 4, figs. 1, 3. 



Open country; nests on grotmd in shallow caA'es or in hollow logs. 



]Me. — Accidental visitor at all seasons (eight records). 

 X. H. — Accidental \isitor: Hampton FaUs, April 1882; X'orth 

 Weare, spring 1887. 



Yt. — Accidental visitor: Eutaw. 



Mass. — Occasional visitor at all seasons. 



R. I. — Occasional \'isitor; four records. May 10-Xov. 



Coxx. — Occasional (mainly summer) visitor. April 20-Oct. IS. 



183. Cathlirista rRUBU (Yieillotj Yieillot. 



Black vulture; Black-headed buzzard; Carrion crow; Jim 



crow. 



Vultur uruhu YieiU., Hist. nat. ois. Amer. Sept., 1807, vol. 1, 



