The Turkey Buzzard in Ontario. 
liY W. E. SAUNDEltS, LONDON, ONT. 
Tlie Turkey Buzzard has so far been pub- 
lished only from tiie extreme west end of the 
Province, but in January, 1887, one was trapped 
twelve miles west of London, which I saw alive 
: in March in a barn, where it was confined. It 
1 was quite lively, and on being caught by its 
3 owner, disgorged some of its dinner for our in- 
" spcction. 
It fed greedily on carrion, and generally al- 
lowed itself to be handled without demur. Men- 
tioning the occurrence in June, 1887, to my 
friend, Mr. L. II. Smith, of Strathroy, Ont., he 
said one was shot there a few months before, 
and in the preceding summer a newly stuifed 
^ one had been left in a store there for some 
weeks. 
In May, 1887, there was mention in a paper of 
one killed seventeen miles northeast of London 
early in the month; and in the collection of 
Mr. John Dodds, St. Thomas, I saw another, 
and ho informed me that he had mounted sev- 
eral local specimens. As the previous spec- 
imens have all been recorded from the extreme 
west of Ontario, those notes are probably wor- 
thy of record, as showing eitlier progress or 
chance occurrence ton miles farther east than 
hitherto recorded. 
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O.AO. XIII. June. 1888 p.94 
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A Turkey Buzzard {Cai/iarfes aura) was captured in March, 1898, 
in Victoria County, N. B., and another seen at Keswick, York County, 
N. B., the same spring. 
Auk, XVII, April, 1900. p. /77 
Turkey Vulture at Moose Factory, James Bay.— The Rt. Rev. Dr. 
Newnhan, Bishop of Moosonee, examined a Turkey Vulture 
aura) taken by one of his men at Moose Factory in June, 1898. The 
record was given to me the following year, but I neglected to record it.— 
J. H. Fleming, Toronto, Ont. 
Atlk, XX, Jan., 1903 , p 
Birds of Toronto, Canada, 
by James K. Fleming, 
Part II, Land Birds, 
AuL , XXIV, Jan., 1907, p.72. 
119. Cathartes aura. Turkey Vulture. — Accidental. One was 
killed in the township of Pickering (about 30 miles east of Toronto), in 
1887. 
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Turkey Buzzard, Cathartes aura . — April 24, 1908, I received a bird 
of this species in the flesh from Point Pelee, Ontario . It was perfectly 
fresh and could not have been killed more than a couple of days. On 
dissection it proved to be a female with ovaries considerably enlarged. 
We have had reports of this bird’s breeding near Harrow, about eighteen 
miles west of the Point, and have seen birds on Point Pelee itself May 20, 
1906 (Willson Bull., 1907, 91). — P. A. Taverner, Highland Park, Mich. 
Auk 25 . July - 1908 
