CATHARTES AURA. 
There is little or no other perceptible ditFerence betweoU 
the sexes. 
The biid from which the foreo'oing’ description wflS 
taken, was shot for this work, at Great Eo-ir Harbour, 
on the 30th of Jauuarjr. It was a fomale'l’iu perfect 
plumag-e, excessively fat, and weiifhed live pounds one 
ounce, avoirdupois. On dissection, it emited a sli'dit 
musky odour. ° 
The vulture is included iii the catalog’uo of those 
fowls declared unclean and an abomination hv the Levi- 
tical law, and which the Israelites were interdicted 
eating.* We presume that this prohibition was religi- 
ously observed, so far at least as it related to the vulture, 
from whose llesh there arises such au unsavoury odour, 
that we question if all the sweetening processes ever 
invented could render it pidatable to Jew, Pa<mn or 
Christian. “ 
tiiiicc the above has been ready for the press, we have 
seen the History of tlie Expedition under the com- 
mand of Louis and Clark, and liiid our conjecture uitb 
respect to the migration of the turkey buzzard yerilied, 
several of this species having been observed at Brant 
Island, neai- the Falls of the Columbia, f 
2. CATHARTES ATRATUS— FULTUR ATRATUS, WILSON. 
BLACK VULTURE, OR. CARRION CROW OF AMERICA. 
WILSON, PL. LXXV. FIG. 11. — FMNBURGH COLLEGE MUSEDM. 
Although an account of this vulture ivas published 
more than twenty years ago, by Mr M'illiam BartraiH. 
wherein it was distinctly specified as a dill'eroiit species 
from the preceding, yet it excites our surprise thU the 
- Lemticus^ xi, 14-. Dentcrnnoniy^ xiv, 13. 
t History of the Expeditiony vol. ii, p. 233. 
