Turkey Vulture {Cathartes aura septentrionalis) at Martha’s Vine- 
yard, Mass — On July 25, 1913, I watched an immature Turkey Vulture 
on the west bank' of Squibnocket Pond. The bird was evidently very 
much interested in something below him on the shore. After hovering 
and circling for a short time, he ahghted on the ground behind some bay- 
berry bushes. Upon showing my head above the shrubbery, the vulture 
swept majesticaUy away; and, followed by a pestering Kingbird, soon 
disappeared into the blue sky.- G. Noble, 
Another Massachusetts Record for the Turkey Vulture (Cathartes 
aura septentrionalis). — On July 24 of this year, I was watching a Red-tailed 
Hawk over Higgins’ Pond in Truro, Cape Cod, Mass., when a large black 
bird appeared from the southeast and flew with slow wing-beats across the 
pond, rather low and at no great distance from me, and then mounted 
soaring into the air. Though I had become familiar with the Turkey 
Vulture on a visit to Virginia some years ago, I did not at once recognize 
it in Massachusetts, where this species does not ordinarily come into our 
reckoning, but soon the size, color, long outstretched wings with the tips 
of the primaries well separated, and comparatively long, rounded tail iden- 
tified the bird positively as Cathartes aura and presumably of the subspecies 
septentrionalis. Presently it dropped to a lower level and sailed straight 
on motionless wings in the direction of Slough Pond, half a mile away to 
the north. On reaching Slough Pond, I failed to find the Vulture but 
startled an immature Bald Eagle from its perch on the farther shore, and 
while watching it move off in circles towards the west, I saw two other 
soaring birds in the distance, probably the Red-tailed Hawk and the 
Turkey Vulture. Meeting with these three fine birds in such close succes- 
sion, each one larger than the last, was an interesting experience, and the 
Turkey Vulture is uncommon enough in Massachusetts to make it seem 
worth while to record the occurrence. — Francis H. Allen, West Roxhury, 
Mass. 
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