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3. Cathartes atratus, Less. Black Vulture. — A specimen of this 
Southern species was shot at Sandy Hook during the spring of 1877. It 
was feeding upon the carcass of a pig, and was easily approached. It is now 
in my collection. 
Bua N.O.O. 6, April. 1880, p. ft ^ 
g Cathartes atratus. Black Vulture.— An individual of this spe- 
cies was found dead on Coney Island Beach a few years ago. I have not 
the exact date, but Mr. Akhurst is iny authority- ^ ^ 
Bull, N.O O. 0. Aarii- IriSl, p. 
(/? € ec^ 'l/L£ 
Catharistes urubu. Black Vulture. — An individual of this species 
was caught in a trap by a farmer residing near Shelby Center, on the 
28th of May, 1892, and came under my observation rvhile yet alive. 
Jion<^H-s^Cii7c/j /7go«^/ 
Catharista urubu. Black Vulture. — I am indebted to Mr. C. W. 
Crandall of Woodside for the report of the capture of a specimen of this 
bird which so rarely reaches us from more southern regions that this may 
perhaps be regarded as the first specimen authenticated beyond a doubt, or, 
at least, backed by an authenticated skin, taken within the actual geo- 
graphical limits of Long Island. As stated in ‘A List of the Birds of Long 
Island,’ p. 67, the evidence entitling it to a place in the avifauna of Long 
Island rests on the authority of Mr. Robert Lawrence who observed it on 
the adjacent shore of Sandy Hook, and of Mr. deL. Berier, who reported 
one found dead at Coney Island beach, by Mr. Akhurst. As no authenti- 
cated skin of this specimen is extant, that of Mr. Crandall’s is all the more 
valuable. Mr. Crandall was at Plum Island, L. I., on May 19 and 20, 1895, 
and on exactly or nearly the same dates on the three subsequent years, in 
the interests of ornithological investigation. It was on the second trip, 
namely, 1896, on the 19th or 20th of May, or within a day or two of these 
dates, that the bird was shot. He was in the field, bird-nesting, when, 
hearing a distant gun-shot he was attracted to investigate the cause. He 
found that the shot had been fired by a farmer, at a large bird which had 
been feeding on a dead sheep. The farmer — a Mr. Clark — finding that 
there clung to the bird an odor not incompatible with its feeding habits, 
had consigned his prize to the furrow where the plowshare would shortly 
have buried it. From this position Mr. Crandall, with prompt and com- 
mendable collecting zeal, rescued the specimen and sent it to a New York 
taxidermist (Murgatroyd) for mounting. Mr. Crandall still has the 
mounted skin in his possession, and, at his home, the writer recently had 
the pleasure of examining it. 
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