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are flying together, as constantly occurs in the Southern States ; 

 there is also a radical difference in the mode of flight, this 

 species never sailing for any distance without flapping the 

 wings. Nesting the same : eggs similar, but larger, or at any 

 rate more elongate ; * 3|^ X 2. Chiefly South Atlantic and 

 Gulf States, there very numerous, far outnumbering the Tur- 

 key Buzzard, and semi-domesticated in the towns ; N. regularly 

 to North Carolina, thence straggling even to Massachusetts 

 and Maine ; " etc. (Coues.) 



As the Vultures are of wholly accidental occurrence in New 

 England, and as their more characteristic habits are well 

 known, I shall not here present their biographies, which I 

 should be obliged to borrow from other writers. Some re- 

 marks as to their prominent peculiarities have already been 

 presented among those on the birds of prey, at the beginning 

 of this chapter. 



* The eggs of the Black Vulture decided greenish tinge, whereas the 

 are not only larger than those of the ground color of the eggs of C. aura is 

 Turkey Buzzard, but they also show a either plain or creamy white. — W. B. 



