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Wilson (J.)
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NORTHERN ZOOLOGY.
PA R T II.
A V E S.
R A PTO R E S.
VULTURIDÆ.—VULTURES.
[1.] 1. Sarcoramphus Californianus. (Vigors.) Californian Vulture.
Gen us. Sarcoramphus. Dum e r il .
Vultur Californianus. Shaw. Nat. Mis., ix., pi. 301.
Californian Vulture. L a th . Syn. Suppl., ii., p. 3.
Vultur Californianus. Id em . Ind. Suppl., p 2.
Buzzard. Lewis & Clark. Joum., Sj;c., iii., p. 48, No. 4.
Cftthartes Vulturinus. Temm. PI- col. 31.
Cathartes Californianus. Bonap. Syn., p.- 22.
Sarcoramphus Californianus. Vig. Zool. Joum., ii., p. 375.
Vultur Californianus. Douglas. Zool. Joum., iv., January, 1829, p. 328.
T h is great Vulture is an inhabitant of the shores of the Pacific, and was first
introduced to the notice of naturalists by Mr. Menzies, who brought a specimen
from California, and deposited it in the British Museum. It has not been discovered
to the eastward of the Rocky Mountains, and I can, consequently, make
no addition to its history from personal observation; but Mr. David Douglas has
given an interesting account of the habits of the species in the Zoological Journal, from which the following notices are extracted. He represents it as a common
bird in the woody districts of California, which he met with in the summer as
far north as the forty-ninth degree of latitude ; but nowhere so abundantly as
in the valley of the Columbia, between the Grand Rapids and the sea. “ They
build,” he says, “ in the most secret and impenetrable parts of the pine forests,
invariably selecting the loftiest trees that overhang the precipices on the deepest
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