A Black Vulture n^S^OulIc’, of October last 
a Black Vulture {CaikaHsia atrata) was killed on the beach at Beaiiport, 
about SIX miles from Qiiebec ; the bird was shot as it was flying towards 
a carrion. The man who secured the bird thought he had shot a young 
Eagle, but on seeing its black and unfeathered head and upper neck I 
ascertained it was a Black Vulture. 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, 'Quebec, Ca?t. 
Auk, XV. ApxU, 1898. p. 
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Black Vulture (Catharista atrata). — A Black Vulture was shot at 
Pugwash, Cumberland County, N. S., on Januaiw 12, 1896, and was 
brought to Halifax where I identified it. Mr. Chamberlain (Nuttall’s 
Ornithology, 1S91) states that it has been killed on Grand Manan in 
the Bay of Fundy. I think it has not been elsewhere met with in the 
Dominion of Canada. As in the case of the Least Bittern, the Little 
Blue Heron, the Galllnule, and the Lapwing, it will be observed that the 
present bird was taken at a very early period of the year. 
