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five years ago in the vicinity of Kingston, Kent Co. {Philip Cox, 

 Jr., in The Au^,Yo\. IV. 205.) The Bishop of Moosonee informed 

 me that a specimen was taken at Moose Factory, on James Bay, in 

 June, 1898, by one of his men. {/. H. Fleming^ As far as I am 

 aware this species has been observed only in the southwestern 

 part of the province of Ontario ; Mr. Wagstaff writes that he has 

 frequently seen it in Essex C9. and once at Baptiste Creek, some 

 years since. (Mcllwraith.) Mr. John Sullivan of Kerwood, Lamb- 

 ton Co., has found the nest of this bird, and as it is common in 

 the three western counties it doubtless breeds in fair numbers. I 

 once saw 19 individuals in a single field at Forest, Ont. {W. E. 

 Saunders!) In Upper Canada near Sandwich and Lake St. Clair^ 

 in 1823, I saw vast numbers of C. aura (Turkey Buzzards) and had 

 every opportunity of watching their habits. {David Douglas!) 

 The above extract taken from Richardson's Fauna Boreali will 

 show the change that has taken place since then. 



A tolerably common summer resident in many parts of the 

 prairie region extending from Winnipeg, Man., to the Rocky 

 Mountains. Thompson-Seton in his " Birds of Manitoba" says that 

 it breeds near Qu'Appelle, and as others have seen it in pairs it 

 doubtless breeds in other localities. In May, 1895, the writer 

 found it breeding near Home's Ranch at the mouth of Old Wives' 

 Creek in Eastern Assiniboia. In June of the same year a few 

 pairs were seen in the Cypress Hills at Farewell Creek, and 

 occasional birds were noticed at Medicine Hat, Crane Lake, at 

 West Butte and along the Milk River; three were seen at different 

 times at Edmonton, Alta., in May, 1897 by W. Spreadborough. 

 One was seen at Banff in 1891, and they were seen in numbers at 

 Deer Park on the Columbia River in June 1890; a few observed at 

 Vernon, B. C, in July, 1889.. {Macoun.) Distributed throughout 

 British Columbia but nowhere common, though in September, 

 1887, I saw about a dozen together at the mouth of Harrison 

 River. {Fannin.) One seen at Nanaimo July nth, 1893, and in 

 the autumn of 1889 about a dozen at Victoria, Vancouver Island ; 

 in June, 1901, eight were seen at Chilliwack, B.C. {Spreadborough.) 

 Fannin on page 34 of the catalogue of the museum at Victoria, 

 B.C., describes two vultures in the park at Beacon Hill. He has 

 since written me that they developed into this species. 



Breeding Notes.— I never saw the Turkey Vulture in Mani- 

 toba, but have often seen it in Assiniboia where it breeds. A set 



