. 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, by Brewer. Birds; 1854. BLACiv VULTURE. 6(37 BLACK VULTURE, OR CARRION CROW.— VULTUR JOTA — Bartram, p. 289. — Gallinazo, Ulloa, Voy. i. p. 52. — Zopilol, C,'avis;ero, Uist. Mex.'i. p. 47. — Vultur Jota, Molina, Hist. Chili, i. p. 185. — Peale's Museum, No. 13. VULTUR JOTA. — '" Vultur jota, Bajiap. Synop. p. 23.— Cathartes atratus, North. Zool. ii. p. 6. Although an account of this Vult
. 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, by Brewer. Birds; 1854. BLACiv VULTURE. 6(37 BLACK VULTURE, OR CARRION CROW.— VULTUR JOTA — Bartram, p. 289. — Gallinazo, Ulloa, Voy. i. p. 52. — Zopilol, C,'avis;ero, Uist. Mex.'i. p. 47. — Vultur Jota, Molina, Hist. Chili, i. p. 185. — Peale's Museum, No. 13. VULTUR JOTA. — '" Vultur jota, Bajiap. Synop. p. 23.— Cathartes atratus, North. Zool. ii. p. 6. Although an account of this Vulture was published, more than twenty years ago, by Mr. William Bartram, wherein it was distinctly specified as a different species from the preceding, yet it excites our surprise that the ornithologists should have persisted in confounding it with the Turkey Buzzard, — an error which can hardly admit of ex- tenuation, when it is considered what a respectable authority they had for a different opinion. The habits of this species are singular. In tlie towii^ and villages of the Southern States, particularly Charle^on and Georgetown, South Carolina, and in Savannah, Georgia, the Carrion Crows may be seen, either sauntering about tlie streets, sunning themselves on the roofs of the houses and the fences, or, if the weatlier be,cold, cowering around the tops of the chimneys, to enjoy the benefit of tlje heat, which to them is a peculiar gratification. They are protected by law, or isage ; ^ Mr. Swainson, in a note to the description oflhis bird in the JVorlhern Zoology, remarks, as a reason for changing the name given l\v Bonaparte, " We have not considered it expedient to apply to this bird tlic srieiitific name of lolci, given b^ Mohna to a Black Vulture of Chili, because there is no evidence to prove that it is the Turkey Buzzard of North ; .Neither is there present proof that it is not J therefore, we retain Bonaparte's name. — El).. Please n
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