THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

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The Turkey Vulture- 



Cathartea aura. 



This noble bird lia.s been tlie source 

 of my study for three years, and, dur- 

 inpf all that time, I have not seen a sin- 

 gle word about him in the Oolocu.st ex- 

 cept a query "Does C. aMra occupy the 

 same nest year after year?" This I 

 Was not then able to answer, but am 



now prepared to say they do, and es- 

 pecially when they are not molested. 



On May 9, 1889, I took a set of two 

 creamy white eggs, 2.80xL93aud 3.79x2, 

 specked and bloched with lavender and 

 two shades of brown, from an old syca- 

 more stump that had been occupied for 

 at least fifteen years, according to the 

 farmer on whose land I found them and 

 I think him truthful. The stump was 

 broken off 13* feet from the ground, 

 and the cavity was 2f feet deep, with 

 no nest except a few dried weed stalks 

 and the rotten wood naturally in the 

 cavity. 



In 1890 I took another set from this 

 same nest and also a set from an old ap- 

 ple stump, 8 ft high, in a deserted or- 

 chard only about half a mile from the 

 farm house, and on May 17, 1891, a set 

 from an elm stump 32 ft high. The 

 cavity in this stump Avas 18 inches 

 deep. 



This bird, vulgarilly called the "Tur- 

 key Buzzard," is an inhabitant of al- 

 most the entire North American conti- 

 nent, south of the British Provinces, and 

 no doubt all the readers of the Oologist 

 have seen him as he soars around and 

 around in search of food. They are 

 gregarious, and often I have seen twen- 

 ty or thirty of them together, cii'cliug 

 over the town or surrounding country. 

 Their general plumage a dull bhuU. 

 with a glossy bronze-green on the back; 

 feathers on legs to the knee, and the 

 feet slightly weljbed. There are no 

 feathers on the head and neck, except a 

 line of down on the back of the neck, 

 the fore part being l)are to the breast 

 feathers. The eyes are of a reddish- 

 brown color. The young of this species 

 are covered with a white down up to 

 the time of leaving the nest. 



Geo. VV. Pitmax, 

 Newcastle, Indiana. 



