. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. EXPLANATORY INDEX. 485 )m the treo, •er on pages trees. 'rfuraed, and Very little more than a ; supplied by of this bird ?rsv between The Aura Vulture, popularly known as the Turkey Buzzard, is very common in its own country, and in civilized places is protected by law, on account of its value as a scavenfier. Waterton states, in corrob
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. EXPLANATORY INDEX. 485 )m the treo, •er on pages trees. 'rfuraed, and Very little more than a ; supplied by of this bird ?rsv between The Aura Vulture, popularly known as the Turkey Buzzard, is very common in its own country, and in civilized places is protected by law, on account of its value as a scavenfier. Waterton states, in corroboration of his own view of the case, that during the dreadful plague in Malaga, which has already been mentioned on p. 11, the Vulture did inestimable service. ** So great was the daily havoc of death, that no private burials could be allowed, and many a corpse lay exposed in the open air until the dead carts made their rounds at night- fall to take them away to their last resting place, which was a large pit, prepared by the convicts in the day time. " During this long-continued scene of woe and sorrow, which I saw and felt, I never could learn that the Vultures preyed upon the dead bodies which had not had time enough to putrefy. But, when the wind blew in from the !^^editorranean, and washed ashore the corrupted bodies of those who died of the pestilence, and had been thrown overboard from tho shipping, then it was that the vultures came from the neigh- bouring hills to satisfy their ; The popular name of turkey buzzard is given to the bird on account of its resemblance to the common turkey, and many a new comer has found himself an object of derision because he has shot an Aura Vulture, taking it for a turkey. came off tho volumes of >ook, and too I strongly d admire the subject, and jround from. VULTURE SUNNING ITSELF. The smaller illustration is taken from a sketch at the Zoological Gardens, representing the Vulture in a favourite attitude, sitting o
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