BLACK VULTURE. 
17 
from numerous, and is peculiar to the warmer cli- 
J*>ates alone.* The latter bird is liu-ffer than the zopilot, 
**? a red head and feet, with a beak ot a deep red 
except towards its extremity, which is white. 
^ feathers are hrow'u, except upon the neck and parts 
’*'it the breast, which are of a reddish black. The 
are of an ash colour upon the inside, and, upon 
““ outside, are variepited with black and tawny. 
» The cozcaquauhtli is called by the Mexicans, Iting 
J the zopilots ; f and they say, that, when these twm 
jfB'acs hapjien to meet toifetheV about the same I'arrion, 
copilot never bcfrins to eat till the cozcaquauhtli has 
Jested it. The zopilot is a most useful bird to that 
for it not only clears the fields, but attends 
, / “>’Ocodih!s, and destroys the ejtgs which the females 
. fhose dreadful amphibious animals leave in the sand 
liatched by the heat of the sun. The destruction 
J a bird ou-rht to be prohibited under severe 
Of tl* olmost Rfro”! of trespassing upon the patience 
ar Teader by the length of our (juotatioiis ; but as we 
anxious that the subject of this article should 
^“Joytha '• 
5'“" • 
'*.7 «lilXlOUS T.llal I'lUl 
that right to which it is fairly entitled, of being 
4 as an independent species, we are tempted to 
- - -l-'.-l' ...« ivt ♦Viri TT-i Q^rtTli 
Of rij.'** fostimony more, which we find in the History 
by the Abbe Molina. 
sho -'Of® {vuUur jota) resembles much the aura, a 
1 of vulture, of' wdiich there is, perhaps, but one 
wv?*'fy- It is distinguished, however, by the beak, 
th„ ^ !fav, with a black point. Kotwitbstanding 
ana'-’*® Of bird, wbi. h is nearly that of the turkey, 
bm '"‘••ong and crooked talons, it attacks no other, 
weds principally upon carcasses and rejitiles. It is 
• Tn • 
A 18 a mistake. . . i_- a u *i 
the vzdiur aura. The hird which now goes by the 
ot *7,.. in New Spain, is the vultur papa 
UaitlQ i* I fHH U» 
of the zopthts, in N( 
Mexico, translated 
‘'Oadon, 
^OL. I, 
■anslated by Cullen, vol. i, p. 47. 
