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of two eggs in my collection was taken near Moose Jaw, Assa., 

 May I2th, 1897. I also found it breeding at Rush Lake in May, 

 1893. It lays 2 eggs on the ground, usually on the sloping bank 

 of a stream. {W. Raine.) Nest on the ground, or in a hollow 

 log or stump. {Mcllwraitk.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One taken at Old Wives Creek, Assa.; one at Indian Head, 

 Assa., and another purchased with the Holman collection. 



Two sets of eggs ; one taken at Moose Jaw, Assa., May 17th, 

 1898 ; the other at Rush Lake, Assa., June 25th, 1893. In the 

 last case there was no nest and the eggs were laid on the ground 

 at the side of a coulee. 



CXX. CATHARISTA Vieillot. 18 16. 



^26. Black Vulture. 



Catharista atrata (Bartr.) Gray 1869. 

 About half a dozen specimens taken near St. Stephen, N.B., 

 by Mr. Boardman. (^Chamberlain!) A Black Vulture was shot at 

 Pugwash, Cumberland Co., N.S., on Jan. 12th, 1896, and was 

 brought to Halifax where I identified it. (Harry Piers in The 

 Auk, Vol. XV., 196.) On the 28th October last a Black Vulture 

 was killed on the beach at Beauport, about six miles from 

 Quebec; the bird was flying towards carrion. This is, I believe, 

 the first record of a bird of this species being found so far north. 

 It was an adult male. (C. E. Dionne in The Auk, Vol. XV., 53.) 



Family XXIX. PALCONID.ffi. Falcons, Hawks, Eagles, &c. 



CXXI. ELANOIDES Vieillot. 1818. 

 327. Swallow-tailed Kite. 



Elanoides forficatus (Linn.) Coues. 1875. 



Casual. One specimen was observed through a glass by Mr. 

 G. R. White, perched on a flag-staff at the rifle range at Ottawa 

 prior to 1881. {Ottawa Naturalist., Vol. V, p. 38.) Mr. Hay 

 reports one as having been seen at Port Sidney, Ont., on July 

 15th, 1897 ; it sailed several times about his place, and was dis- 

 tinctly seen. I have also an old specimen taken many years ago 

 in Ontario. (/. H Fleming^ 



