PREFACE. 



HAVING at length collected^ drawn and described all the 

 Land Birds of the United States with which I am acquainted^ a 

 very few excepted^ which will appear in the succeeding volume, 

 or in the appendix, as good specimens of them can be obtained, I 

 now present the reader with a list of the whole, arranged in sys- 

 tematic order, with references to the pages of this work where the 

 history of each is detailed. The blanks unavoidably left for the 

 few unpublished ones, may be filled up hereafter with the pen or 

 pencil. Those printed in italics are new species not heretofore 

 figured or described. 



LIST 



OF THE 



LAND BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES, 



WITH THEIR GENERIC CHARACTERS, ACCORDING TO THE ARRANGEMENT OF LATHAM 



VULTURES. 



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Bill straight, hooked at the point; head bare of fea- 

 thers, with a naked skin in front; tongue cleft; neck re- 

 tractile. 



Turkey Vulture, or Turkey Buzzard, (Vultur aura) 

 Black Vulture, or Carrion Crow, {V, atratus) 

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