. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . hearken to their songs with renewed delight, as the harbin-gers and associates of the season they accompany. Theirreturn, after a long absence, is hailed with gratitude to theAuthor of all existence ; and the cheerless solitude of inani-mate Nature is, by their presence, attuned to life and do they alone administer to the amusement and luxury oflife; faithful aids as well as messengers of the seasons, theyassociate round our tenements, and defend the various produc-tions of the earth, on which we so muc
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . hearken to their songs with renewed delight, as the harbin-gers and associates of the season they accompany. Theirreturn, after a long absence, is hailed with gratitude to theAuthor of all existence ; and the cheerless solitude of inani-mate Nature is, by their presence, attuned to life and do they alone administer to the amusement and luxury oflife; faithful aids as well as messengers of the seasons, theyassociate round our tenements, and defend the various produc-tions of the earth, on which we so much rely for subsistence,from the destructive depredations of myriads of insects, which,but for timely riddance by unnumbered birds, would be fol-lowed by a general failure and famine. Public economy andutility, then, no less than humanity, plead for the protection ofthe feathered race ; and the wanton destruction of birds, souseful, beautiful, and amusing, if not treated as such by law,ought to be considered as a crime by every moral, feeling, andreflecting TURKEY VULTURE. turkey buzzard. Cathartes aura. Char. Brownish black; head bare of feathers and bright red; billwhite; length about 2 feet. Nest. In a stump, or cavity among rocks, without additional material. Eggs, 2; white, or with a tinge of green or yellow, spotted with brownand purple ; X 1-90. This common Turkey-like Vulture is found abundantly inboth North and South America, but seems wholly to avoid theNortheastern or New England States, a straggler being seldomseen as far as the latitude of 41°. Whether this limit arisesfrom some local antipathy, their dislike of the cold easternstorms which prevail in the spring till the time they usuallyVOL. I. — I 2 BIRDS OF PREY. breed, or some other cause, it is not easily assignable; and thefact is still more remarkable, as they have been observed in theinterior by Mr. Say as far as Pembino, in the 49th degreeof north latitude, by Lewis and Clarke near the Falls
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