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feeds the young on regurgitated carrion. 

 A dead cow, nearby, just ripe to the 

 Vulture taste, indicated an inexhaustible 

 food-supply. 



YOUNG TURKEY VULTURE IN NEST-LOG 



It is rare to find a Vulture nesting so far 

 north, and no ornithologist in that section 

 had ever before observed such an occur- 

 ence. I have noted these birds soaring 

 above the forests in northern Minnesota, 

 but it may be that "they did not nest 

 there, though the inference would be that 

 they did. Can anyone supply information 

 in regard to this point? 



It is such adventures as this, unexpect- 

 edly coming into one's life, that give to 

 the study of ornithology in the field its 

 peculiar charm, and explain why the 



study of birds, once 



entered upon, becomes an 



ever-increasing delight. 



— Rev. Manley B. 



TowNSEND, Nashua, N. 



H. (Photograph by Prof. 



T. C. Stephens, Sioux 



City, Iowa). 



Young Turkey Vultures 



I am sending you two 

 pictures of young Turkey 

 Vultures which I pho- 

 . tographed under rather 

 novel circumstances. 

 After taking them on the 

 fallen tree, they took 

 fright and ran into the 

 hollow log, which was 

 Determining the location 

 focused my camera at ten 

 I 



their nest, 

 of the nest I 



feet and placed it in the hollow log 

 then ignited a flashlight behind and slightly 

 above the camera. Thinking the unusual 

 way in which this picture was taken, as 

 well as the resulting view of the birds, 

 might interest you I am sending them, 

 hoping you may find them available for 



TWO YOUNG TURKEY VULTURES 



