Black Vulture in Massachusetts. — A female Black Vulture {Calha- 
rista urubu) was shot by Archer L. Pierce, Aug. 20, 1917, on the Burnham 
estate at the west end of Wenham, Mass. The bird was eating from a 
garbage pail at the time. The specimen has been sent to the Boston 
Society of Natural History.— John C. Phillips, Wenham, Mass. 
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