232 KING VULTURE. 
would do him good, he retired to the top of a high mora-tree, and then all 
the common Vultures fell to and made a hearty meal.” 
The King Vulture is a native of tropical America, and is most common 
near the equator, though it is found as far as the thirtieth degree of south . 
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KING VULTURE.—(Sarcorhamphus Papa.) 
latitude, and the thirty-second of north latitude. Peru, Brazil, Guiana, 
Paraguay and Mexico are the chosen residences of this fine species. It is a 
forest-loving bird, caring nothing for the lofty home of the condor, but taking 
up its residence upon the low and heavily-wooded regions in close proximity 
to swampy and marshy places, where it is most likely to find abundance of 
