A.The black eagle, the bald eagle, the sea eagle, and others.
THE VULTURE.
The vulture is like the eagle in size, and some of its habits; but it is so very different from it in many ways, that there is little danger of confusing the two together: the greatest distinction between them is, that the head of the vulture is either quite naked, or covered only with a short down, while the eagle's is well feathered.

This is the chief difference in appearance, but in their habits there is a much greater.

Instead of flying over hills and valleys in pursuit of living game, the vultures only search for dead carcasses, which they prefer, although they may have been a long time dead, and therefore very bad, and smelling very offensively.

They generally live in very warm countries, and are useful in clearing away those dead carcasses which, but for them, would cause many dreadful diseases.

In some countries, indeed, on account of this, the inhabitants will not allow any one to injure them, and they are called for this reason scavengers, which means that they do the business for which scavengers are employed.