BLACK VULTURE. 
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Mr Abbot informs me, that the carrion crow builds its 
nest in the large trees of the low wet swamps, to which 
places they retire every evening to roost. “ They 
frequent,” says he, “ that part of the town of Savannah, 
where the hog-butchers reside, and walk about the 
streets, in great numbers, like domestic fowls. It is 
diverting to see, when the entrails and offals of the 
hogs are thrown to them, with what greediness they 
scramble for the food, seizing upon it, and pulling one 
against another until the strongest prevails. The turkey 
buzzard is accused of killing young lambs and pigs, by 
picking out their eyes ; but I believe that the carrion 
crow is not guilty of the like practices. The two 
species do not associate.” 
