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ABOUT THE VULTURES. 



BIRDS AND REPTILES. 



When we come to consider the Birds of South America, 

 we find that no other country exhibits such a variety of 

 original forms. Of the Passerine family alone, there are at 

 least one thousand species, all exclusively South American. 



Some of the more remarkable of these we have already 

 described. Necessarily, the majority live in the great 

 forest-region of the Amazons; but to the region which 

 now claims our attention belong certain genera and species 

 of an interesting character. 



The Vultures are of different genera from those in 



