AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



DIV. I. AVES TERRESTRES. LAND BIRDS. 



ORDER I. ACCIPITRES. RAPACIOUS. 

 GENUS I. VULTUR* VULTURES. 



SPECIES I. V. AURtf. 

 TURKEY VULTURE OR TURKEY-BUZZARD. 



[Plate LXXV. Fig. 1.] 



Vultur aura, LINN. Syst. ed. 10, torn. i,p. 86, 4. 2nd. Orn.p. 4, 

 /Vo. 8. VIEILLOT, OLs. de VAm. Sept. i, p. 25, pi. 2, bis. Car- 

 rion Crow, SLOANE, Jam. n, p. 294, tab. 254. Carrion Vulture, 

 LATH. Gen. Syn. i, p. 9. Le Vautour du Bresil, BRISS. i, p. 

 468. Turkey- Buzzard, CATESBY, Car. i, p. 6. BARTRAM'S 

 Travels, p. 289. Cozcaquauhlli, CLAVIGEUO, Hist. Mex. i, p. 

 47, English translation. American Vulture, SHAW, Gen. Zool. 

 \u, p. 36. PEALE'S MUSEUM, JVt>. 11, male 12, female. 



THIS species is well known throughout the United States, 

 but is most numerous in the southern section of the union. In 

 the northern and middle states it is partially migratory, the great- 

 er part retiring to the south on the approach of cold weather. 

 But numbers remain all the winter in Maryland, Delaware and 

 New Jersey; particularly in the vicinity of the large rivers, and 

 the ocean, which afford a supply of food at all seasons. 



* This genus, has been divided into several genera, by modern ornitholo- 

 gists. Temminck adopts the four following; 1. Vultur. (Illiger). 2. Cathartes 

 (Illiger). 3. Gypaetus. (Storr.) 4. Gypogeranus. (Illiger). The two follow- 

 ing species belong to the second of these, the genus Cathartes of Illiger. No 

 true Vulture in the present restricted acceptation of that genus has been found 

 in America. 



