SCAVENGERS OE THE SOUTH 
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telephoto lens and focus on one at a moderate distance on 
a telegraph pole. Unfortunately the bird decided to fly just 
as I opened the lens for a timed exposure, the result of which 
was a streak of buzzard clear across the plate. The onh" pos¬ 
sible chance I had, that first season, of photographing a Black 
BLACK BUZZARD ON STREET IN CHARLESTON 
Buzzard was when I saw one sitting quietly on a palmetto 
stub, gorged after a banquet on the remains of a large turtle 
which some negroes had killed and cut up, giving a number 
of Turkey Buzzards and a black fellow or two a fine time. 
No one need say that the poor buzzard prefers carrion, if he 
can find as nice fresh meat as this. Well, I was sneaking 
up to the buzzard, and was almost sure of a snap-shot, when 
a companion fired his gun at a duck which passed over his 
head, and away went my subject. 
