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Updated: June 22, 2025
"It would be suicidal to make the attempt, even if we could; which I doubt." Waldo gave a sudden cry, pointing upward where, far above that destructive storm, could be seen a brace of buzzards floating on motionless wings, wholly undisturbed by the tumult below. "If we were only like that!" the lad cried, longingly. "If a flying-machine could be built like those turkey-buzzards!
An intention which, despite their apparent stolidity in contradiction to the ideas of the closet naturalist and his theory of animal instinct the vultures clearly comprehend. About the behaviour of the birds the marauders take no note. They are used to seeing turkey-buzzards around better known to them by the name "zopilotes."
The vultures and turkey-buzzards, that a few minutes before were circling high in the air, are now screaming amidst the branches of the mahogany-trees; every creature that has life is running, scampering, flying apes and tigers, birds and creeping things. "Vamos, por la Santissima! On! or we are all lost."
By gosh, that's what killed our cow, I reckon! We found her lyin' by the spring, cold an' stiff, two days ago!" "Have you buried the carcass?" "Not much. Turkey-buzzards attend to our cow funerals." "Of course. You look excited, my friend." "I am. We've lost other cattle and colts in this yere pasture." "Ah!" murmured the Professor. His expression became benignant.
"Some one bu'sted him with a' ax most vastly," he muttered. "An' me wastin' two shoots o' powder on the skunk!" "Without bothering to notice the turkey-buzzards that have been following him down the river," I said. He looked sheepish and defended himself: "The cover was too thick to see anything overhead." "He was a friend to the whites. He has been murdered.
And she began, in a slow, solemn movement, the most drawling tune you ever heard, and they all joined in the same fashion: "Poor old Pidy, She died last Friday: Poor old creetur, The turkey-buzzards " But before they could finish the line, while they were yet hanging to the tails of the turkey-buzzards, so to speak, Bobby burst out with: "La! that'th the toon the old cow died on.
They were glad enough when they saw two or three eagles among a great gathering of crows or turkey-buzzards, and, hastening to the spot, they found the torn carcass of a deer, lately killed by wolves. However, as they neared the head of the lake, game became more abundant, and La Salle's famous Mohegan hunters had no difficulty in providing bear's meat and venison.
The branches of the fallen tree were covered with a feathered company, and in the open space between it and Dot's nook, was a constantly increasing crowd of larger birds, such as cranes, plover, duck, turkey-buzzards, black swan, and amongst them a great grave Pelican. The animals were few, and apparently came late.
The man was an Indian and was allowing the canoe to drift. But why should the turkey-buzzards follow him? As I pondered over this problem and waited to learn whether he be friendly or hostile, there came the spang of a rifle from my side of the river and above me. A second shot quickly followed and I thought the figure in the canoe lurched to one side a bit.
It was while supine on my back with only my nose and toes above water that I received my first alarm for that morning. My position being recumbent I was staring up at the sky and in the direction of up-stream, and I saw a speck. It was circling and from the west a smaller speck was hastening eastward. A third tiny speck showed on the southern skyline. Turkey-buzzards.
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