TURKEY VULTURE. 



turkey buzzard. 



Cathartes aura. 



Char. Brownish black; head bare of feathers and bright red; bill 

 white ; length about 2 feet. 



Nest. In a stump, or cavity among rocks, without additional material. 



Eggs, 2 ; white, or with a tinge of green or yellow, spotted with brown 

 and purple; 2.75 X 1-90. 



This common Turkey-like Vulture is found abundantly in 

 both North and South America, but seems wholly to avoid the 

 Northeastern or New England States, a straggler being seldom 

 seen as far as the latitude of 41°. Whether this limit arises 

 from some local antipathy, their dislike of the cold eastern 

 storms which prevail in the spring till the time they usually 



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