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numerous or in more orderly array. A careful scrutiny 

 through our glasses showed many scores of Black and 

 Turkey Vultures walking about and feeding upon the 

 carcasses of the animals, and from this point there ex- 

 tended upward into the air a vast inverted cone of birds, 

 all circling in the same direction. From where we sat 

 upon our horses there see ed not one out of place, the 



Fkj. 265. — Turkey Vulture soaring. 



outline of the cone was as smooth and distinct as though 

 the birds were limited in their flight to that particular 

 area. It was a rare sight, the sun lighting up every bird 

 on the farther side and shadowing black as night those 

 nearest us. Through one's partly closed eyes the whole 

 mass appeared composed of a myriad slowly revolving 

 wheels, intersecting, crossing each others' orbits, but never 

 breaking their circular outline. The thousands of soaring 



