Nordricken 1950 Black Vultures Oct. 29 5 km N Villavicencio, 1400 ft., Kulu, Colombia, S.A. See account under Turkey Vulture for this date. Local name is "chulu" (general) Nov. 4 Walked about 2 km. N (NE?) of camp to where a dead horse was being consumed by vultures. How many (50?) Black and Turkey Vultures. The horse was lying in 2" - 4" inches of swamp water; the birds waded in this water without hesitation. There was a great deal of competition and loud, coarse hissing (?) between individuals. The eyes had been removed, but otherwise there was no opening made in the animal that I could see. While sitting at a point of vantage near the dead horse, looking for King Vultures, Perico related for me the story of why vultures always attack the eyes of a dead animal first. The story bears back to long ago when the animals could all talk. One day a horse was lying asleep, sprawled out with anus relaxed and partly everted. A vulture flying over thought the horse was dead; he alighted and took