. Wilson's American ornithology : with notes by Jardine ; to which is added a synopsis of American birds, including those described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson . ivepounds one ounce avoirdupois. On dissection, it emitted a slightmusky odor. The Vulture is included m the catalogue of those fowls declaredunclean and an abomination by the Levitical law, and which the Is-raelites were interdicted eating.* We presume that this prohibitionwas religiously observed, so far, at least, as it related to the Vulture,from whose flesh there arises such an unsavory odor, that we questionif
. Wilson's American ornithology : with notes by Jardine ; to which is added a synopsis of American birds, including those described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson . ivepounds one ounce avoirdupois. On dissection, it emitted a slightmusky odor. The Vulture is included m the catalogue of those fowls declaredunclean and an abomination by the Levitical law, and which the Is-raelites were interdicted eating.* We presume that this prohibitionwas religiously observed, so far, at least, as it related to the Vulture,from whose flesh there arises such an unsavory odor, that we questionif all the sweetening processes ever invented could render it palatableto Jew, Pagan, or Christian. Since the above has been ready for the press, we have seen the His-torj^ of the Expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, andfind our conjecture with respect to the migration of the Turkey Buz-zard verified, several of this species having been observed at BrantIsland, near the Falls of the * Leviticus, xi. 14. — Deuteronomy, xiv. History of the Expedition, vol. li. p. 233. BLACK VULTURE. 667 BLACK VULTURE, OR CARRIOxN CROW. — VULTUR JOTA.— Fig. Bartram, p. 289. — Gallinazo, Ulloa, Voy. i. p. 52. — Zopilot. Clavi;rero, p. 47. — Vultur Jota, Molina, Hist. Chili, i. p. 185. —Peales MuseumNo. 13. VULTUR J07V3. — BoNAPAKTE.*Vultur jota, Bonap. Synop. p. 23. — Catharles atratus, North. Zool. ii. p. 6. Although an account of this Vulture was published, more thantwenty years ago, by Mr. William Bartram, wherein it was distinctlyspecified as a different species from the preceding, yet it excites oursurprise that the ornithologists should have persisted in confoundingit with the Turkey Buzzard, — an error which can liardly achnit of ex-tenuation, when it is considered what a respectable authority they hadfor a different opinion. The habits of this species are singular. In the towns and villagesof the Southern States, particularly C
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