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TURKEY VULTURE OR TURKEY-BUZZARD. 
VULTUR JlURJl. 
[Plate LXXV.— Fig 1.] 
Fultur auray Lin. Syst. ed. 10, tom. 1, p. 86, 4. — Ind. Orn. p. 4, No. 8. — Vieillot, Oxs. 
de VAm. Sep. 1, p. 25,/)/. 2, bis. — Carrion CroWy Sloane, Jam. 2, p. 294, tab. 254. — 
Carrion Vulture^ Lath. Gen. Syn. 1, p. 9. — Le Vautour du Brhily Briss. 1, p. 468. — 
Turkey-Buzzardy Catesby, Car. 1, p. 6. — Bartram’s Trccvehy p. 289, — Cozca- 
quauhtliy Clavicero, Hist. Mex. 1, p. 47, English translation. — American Fulturcy 
Shaw, Gen, Zool, 7, p. 36. Peale’s Museum, No. 11, male — 12, female. 
THIS species is well known throughout, the United States, 
but is most numerous in the southern section of the union. In 
the northern and middle states it is partially migratory, the greater 
part retiring to the south on the approach of cold weather. But 
numbers remain all the winter in Maryland, Delaware and New- 
jersey ; particularly in the vicinity of the large rivers and the 
ocean, which afford a supply of food at all seasons. 
In Newjersey,* the Turkey-buzzard hatches in May, the deep 
recesses of the solitary swamps of that state affording situations 
well suited to the purpose. The female is at no pains to form a 
nest with materials ; but having chosen a suitable place, which is 
either a truncated hollow tree, or an excavated stump or log, she 
lays on the rotten wood from two to four eggs, of a dull dirty 
white, splashed all over with chocolate, mingled with blackish 
touches, the blotches largest and thickest towards the great end ; 
* The author mentions Newjersey in particular, as in that state he has visited the breed- 
ing places of the Turkey-buzzard, and can therefore speak with certainty of the fact. Penn- 
sylvania, it is more than probable, affords situations equally attractive, which arc also tenanted 
by this Vulture, for hatching and rearing its young. 
