. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . ther class paidattention to the other, and they were closely intermingled, onevident terms of good fellowship. By courtesy I was allowed SCAVENGERS OF THE SOUTH 115 to join the company, and I was interested enougii in allI saw. I should have liked to visit the night-roost of the buzzards,which in the days of Audubon was in some woods two milesfrom the city, across the Ashley River, and may yet be in , the limited time at my disposal forbade. Accord-ing to Audubons account, he a
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . ther class paidattention to the other, and they were closely intermingled, onevident terms of good fellowship. By courtesy I was allowed SCAVENGERS OF THE SOUTH 115 to join the company, and I was interested enougii in allI saw. I should have liked to visit the night-roost of the buzzards,which in the days of Audubon was in some woods two milesfrom the city, across the Ashley River, and may yet be in , the limited time at my disposal forbade. Accord-ing to Audubons account, he and the Rev. John Bachmandid not find it very clean. So be it. If we should refine ourscavengers overmuch, they would probably forage the poultryyards and cease to be the useful birds that they are — albeitthey do commit some depredations upon wild birds youngand eggs. But I have no desire to overturn the economy ofnature, and so, though the buzzards portraits do not makehim out altogether as pretty as a picture and fair as a hly,I confess to a feeling of great kindness to these our TURKEY BUZZARD. ON PINIONS MAJESTIC THE VULTURE
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