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ZOOLOGICAL 



Xo. 



SOCIETY BULLETIN 



,' Publi.ilud 1)1/ the AVit' York Zoological Socicf/) Jiiniuirij, IHO'.I 



NEW WORLD VULTURES. 



By ('. ^^'ILLI.\M Beebk, 



CURATOR OF BIRDS. 



Part II. 



by Herman T. Bohlman and Willii 



Photograph; 

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THE BLACK VULTrUE. 



THIS vulture has a wide range in South 

 America, being found as far south as Ar- 

 gentina, and is probably absent only from 

 Patagonia and the higher altitudes of the Andes. 

 It is, liowever. rather a bird of the sea-coast, and 

 is almost invariably found there in abundance, 

 while in the interior it is outnumbered by the 

 turkej' vulture. It is not found in the West In- 

 dies, but throughout Central America and !Me.\- 

 ico the Black Vulture is universally distributed, 

 and breeds abundantlv. In the United States it 



is resident in the South Atlantic and Gulf .States, 

 breeding as far north as Nortii Carolina and the 

 lower Ohio ^'alley. It is only very rarely that 

 tliis bird straggles as far north as New York. 



Tiie Black is the smallest of the American vul- 

 tures, measuring only two feet in length, with a 

 stretch of wing of about four and a half feet. 

 The bare skin of tiie head and neck is black, as is 

 the whole plumage, this dullness being relieved 

 by the underside of the wings, which are silvery. 

 Tiiis small size and tiie black color have led to 

 its wide-spread name of Carrion Crow. 



PARENTS OF "GENERAL" PERCHED NEAR THE NEST IN THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS, SOUTHERN CAI.IFORNL^. 



