NORTH AMERICAN OOLOGY; 



BEING AN ACCOUNT O1T 



THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA 



DURING THEIR BREEDING SEASON, 

 WITH FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR EGGS. 



PART I. 



ORDER RAP TO RES. 

 FAMILY VULTURID^E. 



CATHARTES AURA. 



Vultur aura, LINN. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 122. 



" " WILSON, Am. Orn. IX. 1814, pi. Ixxv, fig. 1. 

 Cat/iartes aura, BONAPARTE, Synopsis, 1828, p. 22. 



" " RICHARDSON & SWAINSON, Fauna Bor. Amer. II, 1831, 4 

 " NUTTALL, Manual, I, 1832, 43. 



" " AUDUBON, Ornithological Biography, II, 1835, 296 ; V, 339, pi. cli. 



" " BONAP. Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, p. 1. 



" " AUD. Synopsis, 1839, p. 3. 



" " "_ Birds of America, I, 1840, 15, pi. ii. 



" " DE KAY, Nat. Hist. New York ; Birds, 1844, p. 2, pi. v, fig. 12. 



" " CASSIN, Synopsis N. A. Birds (Illust. of Birds of California, &c.), 1854, p. 57. 

 Catliartes septentrionalis, DE WIED, Reise, I, 1839, 162. 



VULG. The Turkey Buzzard. The Turkey Vulture. John Crow Vulture (GOSSE). Carrion 

 Crow (SLOANE, Journ. II, 294). Carrion Vulture (LATHAM, Gen. Syn. I, 9). Vautour du 

 Bresil (DE BUFF. Ois. I, 246). 



birds are more widely distributed through the North American continent 

 than this Vulture. On the Atlantic coast its highest northern migration has been 

 supposed to be southern New Jersey, where it is said to be found throughout the 

 year. A few well-authenticated instances exist of its having been seen on the 

 eastern coast beyond this northern limit, 1 and vague but probably unfounded state- 



1 Catalogue of the Birds of Connecticut, by Rev. James H. Linsley, Silliman's Journal, XLI V, 1843, 250. 

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