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Updated: June 11, 2025
Here, on the ridge at the top of the cliff, the woods stretch back half a mile to meet the prairie. Straight down from the red cedars on the brink of the rock the river softly eddies round a huge boulder, the remnant of some cliff tragedy countless years ago. In the rent of the rock from which it fell a turkey-buzzard often sits and spreads her huge wings as the boats glide by.
"I say the same, but how comes it that you believe so now?" Say suggested, with a smile. Hayoue nodded. "I thought differently," she explained, "but now my heart has changed." "You are right," the young man said approvingly, adding, "but he must avoid the snares which that turkey-buzzard Tyope may set for him, and we must preserve him from them." "I warned him."
"What's all that shootin' about?" he demanded of Harry Joslyn. "I didn't mean it, sir," Harry explained. "I was just aiming my gun at things I see along the road just trying the sights like. A turkey-buzzard lighted on a stump out there, and I guess I must have forgot myself and cocked my gun, for it went off.
"When you call me a turkey-buzzard you say the truth," he answered, "else I would not have come to you." Shotaye understood the venomous allusion and was going to retort, but bethought herself in time and only said in a contemptuous tone, "Why should I quarrel with you, uak." Then turning to Zashue and changing the subject, "How many feathers do you want, and what will you give me for them?"
As I strolled away I heard her beginning a Shawnee myth, in which it was explained why the wet-hawk feeds while flying, and how the small turkey-buzzard got its tufted head. According to the notches cut in my long stick it was the first day of September. Now that Cornstalk was back and in conference with Black Hoof the village became a center of importance.
There is a bird in Guayana called the `gavilucho, which I believe to be a vulture differing from all these; and, moreover, I do not think that the `red-headed gallinazo' of South America is the same as the turkey-buzzard of the north.
It may easily be distinguished from the turkey-buzzard, which it greatly resembles, by the shape of the feathers round its neck, which descend from the back of the head towards the throat in a sloping direction; whereas those of the turkey-buzzard form a ring round the throat. Its general colour is a dull black.
One day we rode on for hours, without seeing a tree or a bush; before, behind, and on either side, stretched the vast expanse, rolling in a succession of graceful swells, covered with the unbroken carpet of fresh green grass. Here and there a crow, or a raven, or a turkey-buzzard, relieved the uniformity.
Then he took out the bird book, settled comfortably on a bench, and with a deep sigh of satisfaction turned to the section headed. "V." Past "veery" and "vireo" he went, down the line until his finger, trembling with eagerness, stopped at "vulture." "'Great black California vulture," he read. "Humph! This side the Rockies will do for us." "'Common turkey-buzzard."
The superstition now becomes mere fetich-worship, since the Indian regards the mysterious object which he carries about him rather as an embodiment than as a representative of a supernatural power. A turkey-buzzard, according to him, is the vision of a medicine-man.
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