Excerpt from Nature Neighbours, Vol. 2: Embracing Birds, Plants, Animals, Minerals; Birds Vultures live on carrion, and have naked heads and feet, the better to enable them to act as scavengers. Except in nesting season, they are usually found in flocks, returning to the same roosting-place regularly. Strong fliers, they often sail majestically for minutes without an apparent wing stroke. They have no note except in case of alarm. In America the range is less northerly than formerly, because dead ani mals are now disposed of or buried, Where they formerly remained on the surface to decay. In the South they are protected by law and public sentiment. The sense of smell is keen, but sense of sight is especially so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.