660 TURKEY VULTURE. 
conformation, unless it be to facilitate diving, for w tich the compressed 
form is well adapted; and likewise the body, when expanded, will be 
rendered more buoyant, and fit for the purpose of swimming upon the 
surface of the water. : ; 
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TURKEY VULTURE, OR TURKEY BUZZARD.— VULTUR 
AURA. — Fic. 316. 
Uruba, aura T. zopilott, Marcgrave, Mexico, 207, 208. — Hernandez, Mex. 331. — 
Vultur Galline, Africanee facie, Carrion Crow, Sloane, Jam. ii. p. 294, tab. 254. 
— Brown, Jam. 471.— Damp. Voy. ii. pt. 2,-p. 67.— Bartram’s Travels, p. 289. 
— Cateshy’s Carolina, 1,6.— Corvus sylvaticus, Barrere, 129, — Lawson’s Car- 
olina, 138.— Buncroft, 152.— Du Pratz, ii. Ti.— Will. Orn. 68. Rati Syn. 
No. 180.— Lian. Syst. 122. —Carrion Vulture, Lath. Gen. Syn. 1,9, No, 5. dd. 
Sup. p. 2.— Penn. Arct. Zool. 1, p. 221. — Vautour du Brésil, De Buff. Ois. 1, 
246. Pl. enl. No. 187. — Brisson, 1, 468. —Cozcaquauhtli, Clavigero, Hist. Mex. 
1, 47. — Peale’s Museum, No. 11, male; 12, female. 
CATHARTES AURA. — Iuicer.* 
Catbartes aura, Ilig. Prod. — Bonap. Synop. p. 33. — North. Zool. ii. p- 4. > 
Tus species is well known throughout the United States, but is 
most numerous in the southern section of the Union. Inthe Northern 
* The Vultures are comparatively a limited race, and exist is every quarter of the 
world, New Holland excépted ;+ but their range is chiefly in the warm latitudes. 
Those of the New World seem to be contained in two genera, Sarcoramphus of 
7 Ihave said ‘* New Holland excepted,” because we have yet no well-authenticated_in- 
stance of any thing approaching this form ftom that very interesting country. The New Hol- 
land Vulture of Latham rests, to a certain extent, on dubious authority, and cannot now be 
referred to., I have no doubt that some representing group wil] be ultimately discovered, 
which may perhaps elycidate the principal forms wanting tothe Raptorcs, and T know that 
Mr. Swainson possesses a New Holland Bird, whose station he has been unable to decide 
whether it will enter here, or range with the gallinaceous birds, I trust that that gentleman 
will, ere long, work out its affinities as fur as possible, and give it to the public. — Ep. 
