SCAVENGERS OF THE SOUTH 
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TURKEY BUZZARD. SUNNING ITSELF 
selves in the trees and on the ground. The whole place was 
hlthy, and some of the trees had died. It is well known that 
buzzards habitually resort to certain localities as roosting- 
places. I myself had seen one, on a small scale, in the timber 
along the Sheyenne River, in North Dakota, and one of my 
guides knew of another in the western part of that state. 
This was among the rocks on the side of a steep, barren hill, 
and the Turkey Buzzards not only resorted there to roost, 
but some of them reared their young under the rocks. 
I should very much have liked to stumble upon this roost in 
Jane Green Swamp. In the attempt to reach it we had poled 
and dragged a boat four weary miles over the treacherous 
morass, stepping out now and then into aquatic vegetation 
which abounded in deadly moccasins, one of which would 
now and then slip out fairly from under our feet. Then we 
had to walk six miles across the prairie, passing occasional 
