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VERTEBRATES : BIRDS. 



of all North America except the Arctic regions, is thirty 

 inches long, and the wing twenty-three inches. 



Fig. 88. 



California Vulture, C. californianus, Shaw. 



The California Vulture, C. californianus, Cuv., of West- 

 ern North America, is the largest rapacious bird in Amer- 

 ica, except the Condor, being from forty-five to fifty inches 

 long, and the wing thirty inches ; the color black, with a 

 white transverse band upon the wings, the head and 

 neck orange yellow and red. 



The Black Vulture or Carrion Crow, C. atratus, Les- 



