BLACK VULTURE. 
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“•■nitholowists should have persisted in confounding it 
"ith the turkey buzzard; an error nhich cun mi y 
'idinit of exteiniation, ■uhen it is considered uliat a 
•■espectahle authority they had for a different opimon- 
The habits of this species are singular. In the on 
““•1 viUau-es of the southern states, particularly t.harles- 
and (.ieorgetown, Sontli Cai'olina, and in bayaiiiiah, 
Georgia, the carrion cron s may he seen cither sanntei- 
“'g about the streets ; sunning themselves on the roots 
houses, and the fences; or, if the « eather be cold, 
^O"'crino- around the tops of the chimneys, to cn)oy the 
a‘'“*^fit of the heat, n hich to them is a peculiar grati- 
neatiou. They are protected by a hw, or usage ; and 
iie said to be complet.dy domesticated being as 
yi^mon as the domestic poultry, and enually 
, •''luhabitaiits generally are disgusted n-itli tlieir tilthy 
'“’■acioiis habits" hut notnithstaiiding, being yiened as 
to the removal of the dead animal mattei, 
'■"W-h, if permitted to piitrify during the hot season, 
render the atmosphere im]mre, they have a 
P«;^them as scavengers, n hose, labours are sn -servient 
i, *!><> public good. It sometimes haiipens, that, alter 
j’-y'ng gorged themselves, these birds voimt down the 
’‘RHiieys, uhich must he intolerably disgusting, and 
thus* h>'«voke the ill will of those who.se hospitality is 
Tl'e black vultures are indolent, and mav he observed 
wwav vmtureN are 
compuuics loitering for hours together in one place 
, J'^y <lo not associate with the turkey 
?*,«meh darker in their l>>'>m-*S« y, " 
^^‘‘Jr mode of thoht also varies from that ol the turkey 
^.«**ard. The b& vulture Haps its n iugs hve or six 
rapi,llv tl ei. sails with them extended nearly 
^^■;'*Ol,t!dlv^’the turkey bii/^ard seldom Haps its wings, 
" hen ‘sailin-r they form an angle \vilh the body 
upwards. The hitter,' though found in the vicinity ot 
rarely ventur.4 nithin them, and then always 
^PPeariug cautious of the near approach ot any one. 
not so impatient of cold as the former, and is 
