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numerous or in more orderly array. A careful scrutiny 
through our glasses showed many scores of Black and 
Turkey Vultures walking about and feeding upon the 
carcasses of the animals, and from this point there ex- 
tended upward into the air a vast inverted cone of birds, 
all circling in the same direction. From where we sat 
upon our horses there see ed not one out of place, the 
Fre. 265.—Turkey Vulture soaring. 
outline of the cone was as smooth and distinct as though 
the birds were limited in their flight to that particular 
area. It was a rare sight, the sun lighting up every bird 
on the farther side and shadowing black as night those 
nearest us. Through one’s partly closed eyes the whole 
mass appeared composed of a myriad slowly revolving 
wheels, intersecting, crossing each others’ orbits, but never 
breaking their circular outline. The thousands of soaring 
