WILD WINGS 
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NEGROES AND BLACK BUZZARDS ON THE CITY DUMPING-GROUND, CHARLESTON 
zards have secured the contract for this work, and they never 
neglect their duties. At this particular time, in May, there 
must have been upwards of a thousand buzzards in sight, all 
of them the Black Vulture. The fences of the slaughter-pens 
were fairly black with them, awaiting patiently the good 
pleasure of the butchers, and they had little objection to my 
walking up close and taking their pictures. When I hnally 
scared them off, they settled down on a marshy place near 
by, joining a regiment of their fellows already there. Thither 
I followed, and took some photographs of this remarkable 
conclave. 
Out on the open lots where the citv carts were dumping the 
garbage, numbers of negro women and children were poking 
over these leavings, in hope of finding some prize, and with 
them were the buzzards, getting their share. Neither class paid 
attention to the other, and they were closely intermingled, on 
evident terms of good fellowship. By courtesy I was allowed 
