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cealment by which to preserve the dead quarry from jackals and Vultures. 
An ant-bear’s hole offered a very convenient hiding-place, into which the 
buck was pushed, and the carcass was covered over with some grass cut for 
the purpose. As usual in South Africa there were some Vultures wheeling 
round at an enormous 
height above the horizon ; 
these I believed would 
soon come down and 
push aside the grass and 
tear off the most assail- 
able parts of the buck. 
There was, however, no, 
better means of protec- 
tion, so I left the animal 
and rode away. When 
at about a quarter of a 
mile from the antbear’s 
hole, I thought that it 
might be interesting to 
watch how the Vultures 
would approach andcom- 
mence operations, so I 
‘off-saddled,” and kept 
watch. 
“ After about half an 
hour, I saw a Vulture 
coming down from the 
sky, followed by two or 
three others. They came 
down to the spot where 
the buck had been killed, 
and flew past this. They 
then returned and again 
overshot the mark. After 
circling several times 
within a radius of four 
hundred yards, they flew 
away. Other Vultures 
then came and performed 
similar manceuvres, but 
not one appeared to 
know where the buck 
was concealed. I then 
rode off to a greater dis- 
tance, but the same re- d 
sults occurred. _ ARABIAN VULTURE.—(Vultur Monachus.) 
In the evening I re- 
turned for my buck, which 
however was totaily useless in consequence of the intense heat of the sun, 
but which had not been touched by the Vultures.” 
ONE of the best known of the Vultures is the TURKEY BuzZzARD, more 
rightly termed the CARRION VULTURE. Its name of Turkey Buzzard 
is earned fiom the strange resemblance which a Carrion Vulture bears to a 
turkey as it walks slowly and with a dignified air, stretching its long bare 
neck, and exhibiting the fleshly appendages which bear some likeness to the 
