. Bird lore . ck. This, in sharpcontrast to the snowy down still covering the greater part of the body,renders the young Turkey Vulture a very peculiar, if not an attractiveobject. My last visit to this nest was on August g, and I found the young birdwell covered with black feathers and almost fully grown. The neck andhead were still covered with a thin coating of down, and none of the lividcolor seen on these parts of the adult bird had made an appearance. Atthis time it was about seven weeks old, and I should think a week or ten The Turkey Vulture and Its Young 187 days more would have elaps
. Bird lore . ck. This, in sharpcontrast to the snowy down still covering the greater part of the body,renders the young Turkey Vulture a very peculiar, if not an attractiveobject. My last visit to this nest was on August g, and I found the young birdwell covered with black feathers and almost fully grown. The neck andhead were still covered with a thin coating of down, and none of the lividcolor seen on these parts of the adult bird had made an appearance. Atthis time it was about seven weeks old, and I should think a week or ten The Turkey Vulture and Its Young 187 days more would have elapsed before it would take final leave of its nativeplace, making the period between hatching and flight eight or nineweeks. This ended a series of visits to this interesting bird, during which a goodopportunity was afforded of watching its growth from the egg to maturity,and also of obtaining a number of records with the camera, which, by theway, were secured only under strong protest on the part of the NEST AND EGGS OF TURKEY VULTUREAbout one-third natural size Questions for Bird Students In beginning a series of Questions for Bird Students in our issue forDecember, 1902, we announced that they would be continued throughoutthe year, and that in our issue for December, 1903, we should have aninteresting statement to make concerning them. The questions have covered a wide range of subjects relating to birds,and while it may have been fancied that access to an extensive ornithologicallibrary would be needed to reply to them all, the truth is that the answerto every question may be found in Bird-Lore! At least two of ourreaders seem to have discovered this fact, and we have received correct re-plies to the whole thirty-one questions from Ruth Galpin and FrederickJ. Stupp. JFor Ceacl)ers^ anti Students The Migration of Warblers FIRST PAPER Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Datain the Biological Survey With lirawinss by LouiS Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall
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