. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FAM. XXX. AMERICAN VULTURES 2l3 of the head and neck, and the base of the bill are bright red. The tail rounded and the nostril large and broad. The edges of the glossy-black feathers are brownish. This is a very useful bird, as its only food is dead and decaying animal matter. In southern towns this and the next species are depended upon to keep the streets free from carrion. (Turkey Buzzard.) Length, 26-32; wing, 20-24; tail, 101-12; tarsus, 2*-; culinen
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FAM. XXX. AMERICAN VULTURES 2l3 of the head and neck, and the base of the bill are bright red. The tail rounded and the nostril large and broad. The edges of the glossy-black feathers are brownish. This is a very useful bird, as its only food is dead and decaying animal matter. In southern towns this and the next species are depended upon to keep the streets free from carrion. (Turkey Buzzard.) Length, 26-32; wing, 20-24; tail, 101-12; tarsus, 2*-; culinen, 2\. Temperate North America (and all of South America) from New Jersey, Ohio, and British Columhia south to Patagonia ; breeding and wintering about throughout. 2. Black Vulture (326. Catharista atrcita).—A bird similar to the last, but smaller, stouter, and blacker; the bare skin of head and neck and base of bill is also blackish. Its heavier weight and shorter wings make it more labored in flight, so the flapping of the wings is more fre- quent. This differ- ence in flying, the rel- atively short, square tail, the silvery under surface of the wing quills and the small and narrow nostril will enable any one to distinguish this bird from the last. The black vulture is much more common near the seacoast, and decidedly more abundant in cities and towns. Length, 22-27; wing, 16i-17|; tail, 71-81; tarsus, 3 ; culmen, 2\. South Atlantic and Gulf States, and southward throughout most of South America; breeding in the United States from North Carolina to Texas, northward in the Mississippi Valley to Illinois and Kansas, and straggling to New England and South Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, Austin Craig, 1838- [from old catalog]. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American book company
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