BIRDS OF PREY 



(325) Cathartes aura septen = 

 trionalis Wied 



(Or., a purifier; Lat., northern) 



TURKEY VULTURE; TUR- 

 KEY BUZZARD, Whole head and 

 upper neck naked and red, as shown 

 by the upper bird. Tip of bill horn- 

 color. Wings long, folding beyond 

 the tail. L., 28.00; Ex., 72.00; W., 

 23.00; T., 12.00. Eggs — Two 

 whitish, handsomely marked with 

 brownish-black, 2.90x1.90; on the 

 ground or in hollow logs or trees. 



(326) Catharista urubu (vieill.) 

 BLACK VULTURE; CARRION 



CROW. Naked head, black. A 

 smaller but heavier bird than the 

 last. Wings shorter; under surface 

 of wings white. L., 24.00; Ex., 54.00; 

 W., 17.00. Found north regularly 

 only to Va. and Ind. while the pre- 

 ceding reaches N. Y., Ont. and Man. 



conspicuously reddish-brown. Their habits are quite Hke 

 those of the far more common Ground Doves, but they 

 construct even better and more deeply cupped nests located 

 in bushes a few feet from the ground. They are found within 

 our range only casually in southern Texas and a little more 

 frequently along the Arizona border. 



Order RAPTORES. Birds of Prey 



Family CATHARTIDyE. American Vultures 



TURKEY VULTURES are our most abundant repre- 

 sentatives of this interesting and quite useful Family — 

 found throughout the United States, except in New England, 

 and in the south-central portion of Canada. They are 

 scavengers, wholly; they kill nothing themselves, unless 

 possibly it be very sick or badly wounded. Their eyesight 

 is remarkable and their sense of smell no less acute. Let 

 any creature die or be shot and left in the woods and, within 



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