CHORDATA 





The Accipitres include the secretary bird or serpent cater <>l 

 ith Africa; the American vultures, great scavengers, feedi 

 on carrion, including the turkey buzzard (Fig. 342), the Caii- 

 fornian vulture, the tropical king vulture, and the condor, which 

 is confined to the Andes and feeds on living animals as well 

 carrion ; the vultures of the eastern hemisphere, carrion feed- 

 ers found in Europe, Africa, and Asia ; the eagles, which 



FlG. 342. Ca/hartes, a turkey buzzard or American vulture. (From a photograph 

 provided by the American Museum of Natural History. 



widely distributed over the world but of which there arc only 

 two species in North America, the golden eagle, also found in 

 Kurope and Asia, and the baldheaded eagle, confined to this 

 continent ; the true buzzards and their allies, widely distributed 

 and with numerous representatives in this country, two species 

 of the true buzzards, genus Buteo, are known popularly in the 

 eastern United States as hen hawks. To the Accipitres bel< 



