NORTH AMERICAN OOLOGY; 



BEING AN ACCOUNT OF 



THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA 



DURING THEIR BREEDING SEASON, 

 WITH FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR EGGS. 



PART I. 



Order RAPTORES. 



Family VULTURID^. 



cathartes aura. 



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



" " Wilson, Am. Orn. IX. I8I4, pi. Ixxv, fig. I. 

 Catharles aura, Bonaparte, Synopsis, 1828, p. 22. 



" " Richardson & Swainson, Fauna Bor. Amer. II, I83I, 4. 



u « 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. 



Catharles septenfrionalis, 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). 



Few 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 sCuthern 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,' and vague but probably unfounded state- 



^ Catalogue of the Birds of Connecticut, by Rev. James H. Linsley, Silliman's Journal, XLIV, 1843, 250. 

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