When man, in his struggle to survive, is convinced that a certain form of life is helpful, how carefully he protects it! BLACK VULTURES are free and independent citizens of all towns they frequent and guarded by special laws. They are impertinently aware of this fact for many times they refuse to grant gangway until removed by a foot awing. They are ugly, voracious, ill-smelling but necessary. Their digestive apparatus is an extraordinary piece of machinery for the amount of offal which it consumes is enormous — and it is well for the health of some careless southern towns that this is so. . . . .
EGGS: 1 to 3. Pale blue or green white, splashed and blotched with shades of brown: laid on ground under protection of log or bush or in rock cavity.
From western Texas, Kansas, Illinois and Indian Territory south thru southern states. Casual to Nova Scotia.