Catharista atrata. 
Charleston 
1889. 
Jan . 29 . 
, South Carolina. 
Counted 25 Vultures at the marhet this morning. One, a 
young oird doubtless, had the entire head feathered excerit 
for a narrov/ space across the forehead and around a.id in front 
of the eyes. There v;as LUicbj. apparent variation in the extent 
of feathering on the others due partly to age out not a little 
to the way the bird felt at the t irae . Thus a bird inaotivo 
and chilly ruffled the feathers and rolled the shin of the 
head forward until most of t}ie crown and cheehs were covered 
by the feathered shin of the nech. The moment its attention 
was absorbed in a rush for food bach went this feathered por- 
tion until the whole head to the occiput was bare. In alight- 
ing each bird tooh two or three long springy leaps along the 
street after closing its wings. A group of a dozen all had 
hold of a large piece of liver at once, all pulling different 
ways. Saw one flop up on the shelf of a stall and pech at a 
large piece of meat lantil driven off by the stall heeper. 
