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SECTION 2. Wing, over 17 inches long. 



Turkey Vulture. 



Head and fore-neck, bare; skin of head, red; general plumage, 

 brownish black or dark brown; bill, whitish; immature birds have 

 the head feathered. Cathartes aura septentrionalis. 



Turkey Vulture. Turkey Buzzard. 

 See No. 149. 



