FAMILY 1. 
VUZTURINI, ILLIGER. 
GENUS 1.— CATHARTES, Illioer. 
L CATffA&TES AlfRA, ILLIGER. VVLTUR AURA, WILSON. 
TUIIKEV VULTURE, OR TURKEV BUZZARD. 
^ILsoNj PL, LXXV. FIG. I, —— EDI^sBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
o spocies is well known througliout the United 
hut is most numerous in the southern section 
. the Union. In the northern and middle states, it 
* partially mioratorv, the j^eater part retirinir to the 
^antli on the approach of cold weather. But numbers 
«>nain all the winter in Maryhiud, Delaw'are, and New 
®^***^y; particularlj' in the vicinity of the large rivers 
'I the ocean, which afford a supply of food at all 
“Pasong, 
th^"' Jersey,# the turkey buzzard hatches in May, 
aw recesses of the solitary swamps of that state 
attordin^, situations well suited to the purpose. The 
L "“ale is at no pains to form a nest with materials; 
having chosen a suitable place, which is either a 
/'•ncated hollow tree, an excavated stump, or log, she 
on the rotten wood from two to four eggs, of a dull 
he*L mentions New .Icrsey in particular, as in that state 
the f ''“trd tin. breeding places of the turkey buzzard, _ and can 
than HU certiiuty of the fact. Pennsylvania, it is more 
tenant's “Surds situations equally attractive, which are also 
“ted by this vulture, for hatching and rearing its young. 
