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Sp. Char. Male: — Above grayish-ash, darkest on the head; a dull black 
\ patch behind the eye; underparts -whitish, ashy on the sides of 
the breast; wings brown, secondaries and coverts edged with dull 
^hite; under wing-coverts pale yellow; tail brown, feathers faintly 
tipped and edged with dull white; upper tail-coverts edged with 
pale^ilfous. 
The sfexes are similar. 
Length, S.50; wing, 4.40; tail, 4.10; tarsus, .75; bill, .90. 
Habitat. Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, San Domingo, Jamaica, 
Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Bartholomew, and 
Sombrero. 
Tyrannu^ tyrannus (Linn.). 
Lanins tyrannus Linn. Syst. Nat^ p. 94 (175S). 
Lanitis tyrannus var. carolinensis ludovicianus Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 
302 (1788). 
Tyrannus intrefidus? Salle, P. Z. ^ 1857, p. 232 (San Domingo).— 
Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. HistNviI, p. 307 (i860) (Cuba) ; tb. 
Bryant, XI, p. 90 (1867) (San Domingo). 
Tyrannus ^ipiri Gundl. J. f.'O. 1872, p. 423'(Cuba).^ 
Tyrannus carolinensis CorV, List Bds. W. I. p.'i^ (1855). 
Accidental in Cuba. Porto Rico.? San Donjingo .? 
Tyrannus salphurascens Herz. P. V. Wiirttemberg is an un- 
determined species mentioned by Cabanis (J. f. ^ 1857, p. 
241). ItAvas originally described as occurring in Cuba aud Haiti. 
Gun^ach, in writing of this species (J. f. O. 1871, X 268), 
tbibks there has been a mistake in the locality. 
( To be continued^ 
BREEDING HABITS OF THE BLACK VULTURE. 
BY WALTER HOXIE. 
Buzzard Island lies in a bend between Ladies’ Island and 
Wassa Island, and is about three miles in a direct line from Beau- 
fort, South Carolina. It is about an acre and a half in extent and 
surrounded by boggy marsh, beyond which, at low tide, stretch 
OoUeoiioa of Raptoree Eggs. J.P.it* 
Black Vulture. 14 -2. 14 28 
O.&O. XV. Apr. 1890. p. 50 
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A Philadelphia Collection of Eggsof 
the Baptores. 
CatharietM atrata. Black Vulture. Fourteen 
sets of two. Total : fourteen sets, twenty-eight 
eggs. 
O.&O, XIV, Mar. 1889 p.40 
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