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VULTURE 



to her person. Vulcan i\v her there ami at- 

 tempted to rescue her, but was detected in the 

 attempt. This so incensed Jupiter that he 

 kicked the young god out of heaven and in the 

 terrible fall which endued, Vulcan \v 

 further crushed and maimed. He never re- 

 turned to Olympus to live, though often he was 

 called to build great palaces for the other gods 

 and always he forged the thunderbolts of Jupi- 

 ter. He was exceedingly skilful in the use of 

 . and many of the objects that he made 

 he was able to endow with life. He made 

 hroated, fire-breathing bulls, gold and 

 silver dogs that guarded the houses of his 

 friends, and for himself he fashioned golden 

 maidens, endowed with reason and- speech, who 

 waited upon him at his home. His wife, ac- 

 cording to some accounts, was Charis, but it is 

 also said that he was married for a time to 

 Venus, who, however, grew weary of him. 



This god is usually represented as a serene 

 old man with muscular form, whose hair hangs 

 in curls on his shoulders. 



Consult Fowler's Roman Festivals; Gayley's 

 Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art. 



VUL'GATE, a Latin translation of the Bible, 

 completed in A.D. 405 by Saint Jerome. The 

 present official edition was published by order 

 of Pope Clement VIII, in 1592. The Vulgate is 

 the basis of the present English Bible used by 

 Roman Catholics (see DOUAY BIBLE), for by a 

 decree of the Council of Trent the Jerome 

 translation was made the standard Bible of the 

 Church. See BIBLE. 



VUL'TURE, a large, carrion-eating bird of 

 prey, with naked head and neck, found in warm 



temperate and torrid regions of America. It 

 has a majestic flight and is commonly seen 

 soaring in graceful circles high in the air; from 

 this point it spies 

 out the bodies of 

 dead animals, 

 which form its 

 food. The black 

 vulture is two 

 feet in length and 

 measures four and 

 o n e - h a 1 f feet 

 across the wings. 

 This bird is of a 

 glossy black color, 

 with a dusky head 

 and neck. It is 

 fairly abundant 

 in the far South- 

 ern states, espe- 

 cially near the 

 coast, where it frequents the streets of cities, 

 feeding on refuse. It nests on the ground under 

 logs, bushes, palmettos, etc. The eggs are one 

 to three in number, of a pale bluish-white color, 

 marked with chocolate. 



The turkey buzzard is probably the most 

 widely distributed species of vulture (see TUR- 

 KEY BUZZARD). The California vulture, the 

 largest of the species, has an orange-colored 

 head and neck. The king vulture of tropical 

 regions, strikingly marked with black, white, 

 yellow and scarlet, is a bird of the forests and 

 deep swamps. European vultures, while similar 

 to the American in habits, belong to a different 

 group of birds. 



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