TURKEY BUZZARD. 
Cathartes aura. 
Char. Brownish black; head bare of feathers and bright red; bill 
white ; length about 2 feet. 
Mest. In a stump, or cavity among rocks, without additional material. 
Eg!;s, 2 ; white, or with a tinge of green or yellow, spotted with brown 
and purple; 2.75 X 1.90. 
This common Turkey-like Vulture is found abuncLantly in 
both North and South America, but seems wholly to avoid the 
Northeastern or New England States, a straggler being seldom 
seen as far as the latitude of 41°. Whether this limit arises 
from some local antipathy, their dislike of the cold eastern 
storms which prevail in the spring till the time they usually 
VOL. I. — I 
TURKEY VULTURE. 
