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Saskatchewan region and British Columbia, southward to Patagonia and 
the Falkland Islands. 
In Michigan the Turkey Buzzard is practically confined to the two 
southernmost tiers of counties, although it is found sparingly throughout 
two tiers farther north and 
wanders occasionally all over 
the state. Being a bird of re- 
markable powers of flight and 
by no means sensitive to cold, 
it is not surprising that single 
individuals often extend their 
wanderings even to the shores 
of Lake Superior. We have 
records from nearly all the 
counties in the southern half 
of the Lower Peninsula, and 
reports of single specimens seen 
or taken in half a dozen 
localities farther north. 
At Port Huron, Mr. Hazel- 
wood states that he sees from 
one to five every spring. We 
have a specimen in the College 
collection, taken at Riley, Clin- Fig. 67, Turkey Buzzard. Adult. 
ton Co.; we examined a speci- From photograph of mounted specimen. (Original.) 
men at Harrisville, Alcona Co., 
taken near that place; and a description of one killed near Benzonia, Benzie 
Co., was sent us several years ago. We also have a specimen taken at 
the Agricultural College, and Mr. C. J. Davis, of Lansing, has one in his 
collection, which was killed at Fowlerville, Livingston county. There is 
a specimen in the Broas Collection (now in the College Museum), 
taken in Ionia county, and it has been recorded several times from Kent 
county. Mr. Ed. Van Winkle, of Vans Harbor, writes that he has seen 
about a dozen specimens in Delta county (Upper Peninsula) during the 
past fifteen years; and Mr. Thomas B. Wyman, of Negaunee, Mich., writes 
that a specimen was seen there June 20, 1905, by Mr. HE. A. Doolittle, 
of Painsville, Ohio, who knows the species well and could not be mistaken. 
Incidentally it may be noted that J. H. lleming has recorded a specimen 
taken at Moose Factory, James Bay, in June 1898 (Auk, XX, 66). 
The nesting habits are somewhat peculiar. The birds commonly nest 
in a hollow tree, the hollow of a fallen log, the arched cavity beneath a large 
stump, or a small cave or pocket in a ledge of rocks. Some times the eggs 
are laid in.the hollow top of a sycamore stub fifty feet or more from the 
ground, but more often they are placed on or near the ground in some 
such place as just indicated. There are several well attested instances 
of nests found in Michigan, and probably in the counties bordering Indiana 
and Ohio considerable numbers nest every year. Jerome Trombley states 
that a pair nests regularly in a hollow sycamore near the Raisin River 
at Petersburg, Monroe county, and that other pairs have nested in that 
vicinity. May 30, 1903, a nest with two eggs was found in a swamp near 
Freedom, Washtenaw county by Mr. John Uphaus, and the birds have 
nested in that vicinity regularly for several years. Mr. S. E. White and E. 
Durfee took two eggs at Douglas, Allegan county, in 1891. 
