1895] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 299 
Order RAPTORES—Birps or Prey. 
Family CatHartip#£—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. 
Catharista atrata (826). 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 Fatconip£—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. 
