ARABIAN VULTURE.— ri)»ur Mdnachiis. 



almost horizontally ; the zopilote, on the contraiy, flaps its wings six or seven times 

 in succession, and then sails on for a few hundred yards with its wings raised at 

 a decided angle with the body. The two species never company with each other, nor 

 is the Turkey Buzzard found so familiarly associated with man and his habitation as its 

 darker relation. 



The nest of the Turkey Buzzard is a very inartistical affair, consisting merely of some 

 suitable hollow tree or decayed log, in which there may be a depression of sufficient 

 depth to contain the eggs. In this simple cradle the female deposits from two to four eggs, 

 which are of a dull cream-white, blotched with irregular chocolate splashes, which seem 

 to congregate towards the largest end. The young birds are covered with a plentiful 

 supply of white down, and look clean and inviting to the touch. Their motto may, 

 however, be similar to that of the Scotch thistle, " Nemo me impune lacesserit," for 

 at the slightest aggressive touch they will disgorge over the offender the putrid 

 animal substances with which they have been fed, and work sad woe to his hands 

 and garments. May is usually the month in which the young Turkey Buzzards are 

 hatched. 



