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those in a sickly state, although I could adduce numerous instances, it 

 will suffice to produce the following attestations : — 



" We the subscribers, natives of South Carolina, certify, that the 

 Vultures of this State, commonly called the Turkey Buzzard and Carrion 

 Crow, particularly the latter, will attack and destroy living animals, by 

 feeding on them, such as young poultry, and the young of sheep and 

 hogs ; that they will also attack grown animals when in a helpless state, 

 and destroy them in like manner. 



Paul S. H. Lee. Thos. Riggs. 



Stiles Rivers. Thos. W. Boone. 



L. WiTSELL. Malachi Ford. 



L. S. FiSHBURNE. 



Saint Bartholomew Parish, Colleton District, 

 32 miles from Charleston, 25th Jan. 1834." 



" I hereby certify, that some years ago — I cannot specify the precise 



time, but have a perfect recollection of the fact — I saw a horse lying on 



the common, about half-a-mile from the city of Charleston, surrounded by 



a number of Buzzards, apparently feeding on him. My curiosity being 



excited by observing the horse move, I approached and drove off the 



Buzzards. They had already plucked out the eyes of the horse, and 



picked a wound in the anus, where I discovered a jet of blood from a small 



artery, which had been divided. I am well satisfied that the horse did 



not die for many hours afterwards. He struggled considerably whilst 



the Buzzards were operating on him, but was unable to rise from the 



ground. 



B. B. Strobel, M. D. 

 Charleston, 5th Feb. 1834." 



" I certify, that at my plantation, about four miles from the city of 

 Charleston, one of my cattle, about two years old, in feeding in a ditch, 

 got its horn so entangled in the root of a cane, as to be unable to get out. 

 In this situation it was attacked by the Turkey Buzzard and Carrion 

 Crow, who picked out one of its eyes, and would have killed it by feed- 

 ing on it while alive, if it had not been discovered. It was extricated 

 and driven home, but had been so much injured, that I had it knocked 

 on the head to put it out of its misery. 



Gilbert C. Geddes. 

 Charleston, 2Qth Feb. 1834." 

 VOL. II. JD 



