TURKEY VULTURE. 
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precision of a different character from that which dls- 
'*'§>ushes vulgar observation. If the Europeans had 
the opportunity of comparing living specimens of 
®_two species, they at least had preserved subjects, in 
®>r extensive and valuable museums, from which a 
• judginent might have been formed. The figure 
Planches enluminees, though wretchedly ch-awn 
coloured, was evidently taken from a stuffed speci- 
^ of the black vulture. 
^ pennant observes, that the turkey vultures “ are 
at 1 ^*'*'“*^ rtt tl'c northern regions of Europe or Asia, 
feast in those latitudes which might give them a 
' ®'-®1ce of appearing there. I caunot find them,” he 
'hinues, “ in our qum-ter of the globe bigher than the 
’Cison Alns,* or Silesia, + or at farthest Kalish, in 
Pola\ul.”t 
f^olheu, in his account of the Cape of Good Hope, 
“cntions a vulture, which ho represents as very vora- 
and noxious. “ I have seen,” says he, “ many 
j^fcasses of cows, oxen, and other tame creatures, which 
rati '‘-id slain. I say carcasses, but they wore 
and -'telctons, the flesh and entrails bidng all devoured, 
sk" remaining hut the skin and bones. But the 
and bones being in their natural places, the flesh 
Ijj'"!!') as it were, scoo))ed out, and the wound by which 
Wo 1 ^^®* ®“f®r the body being ever in the belly, you 
hal* i J'”" “P ''‘® skeleton, have 
Dpi . ® '®““t su*s|)ic,ion that any such matter bad hap- 
Dutch at the Capo frequently call those 
1 » es. On account of their tearing out the entrails of 
, ^^ts, strunl-voneh, i. e. dung-birds. It frequently 
lJ;{*P«“s, that an ox that Ls freed from the plough, and 
to find his way home, lies down to rest himself by 
^^.t^'ay : and if he does so, it is a great chance but the 
■^f®® fall upon him and devour liim. They attack 
* wniughhy, Orniihologih p. 67. 
t Scliwenckfeldt, >SV/esi«, 375. 
i Kzaezynski, Hist, Nat, Poland) 298. 
