CATHARTES GRYPHUS. 



CONDOR. 



[Plate XXII. Young Male.] 



^^ultur Gri/phns, Linn. Syst. i., p. 121, Sp. 1. Gmel. Si/si. i., p. 245, Sp. 1. Lath. 

 Ind. Oni. I., p. 1, Sp. L Eacijcl. Brit, xviii., p. 695, pi. 510. Humboldt, Hist. 

 Nat. in Obs. Zool. i., p. 26, pi. 8, 9. — Vultur magellanicus, Lever. Mas. p. 1, pi. 

 1, Female. — Vultui- condor, Daud. Orn. ii., p. 8. Shaw, Zool. vii., p. 2, pi. 2, 

 3, 4. — Caihartes gri/jjhns, Temm. Ranzani, Nob. Cat. & St/n. Eds. U. S. Sp. 2. — 

 Gypagiis grijfus, Vieill. Enc. iii., p. 1174. Id. Nouv. Diet. — Sarcoramphus 

 Cuntur, DuMERiL. Sarcoramphus gryphus, Goldfuss, Nat. Atlas, pi. 107, adult 

 Male. — Sarcoramphus condor, Less. Orn. i., pi. 7, adult Male. — Vultur Gryps 

 Gryphits, Klein, Ao. p. 45. Briss. Av. i., p. 473. Id. 8vo. p. 137. Borowsky, 

 Nat. II., p. 62. — Cuntur, Laet. Am. p. 401. Ray, Av. p. 11. — Catarte cnndoro, 

 Ranz. Elem. vii., p. 24, Sp. 2, tab. xxii., fig. 2, adult Male. — II Condoro, Molina, 

 St. Naf. Chili, p. 223. — Manque, Molina, Chili, p. 236 (French edition).— Con- 

 dor, Frezier, Voy. p. iii. La Condamine, Voy. Amaz. p. 175. Briss. Orn. i., 

 p. 473, Sp. 12. Buff. Ois. i., p. 184. Id. (ed. 1770) i., p. 143, v. Martinet, 

 Hist. Ois. — Le Condor, ou Grand Vautour des Andes, Cuv. R^gn. An. i., p. 306. 

 Id. ed. 2, p, 316. — Catharte Condor, Temm. & Laug. pi. col. 133, adult Male, 494, 

 head of the adult living Male, 408, young Female. — Condur Vulture, Lath. Syn. 

 p. 4. Id. Suppl. p. 1. Id. Suppl. ii., p. 1, pi. cxx. Id. Gen. Hist, i., p. 4, 

 pi. 1, adult Male. Hawkesvy. Voy. i., p. 75. Wood's Zoography, i., p. 371. 

 Stevenson, Voy. Am. ii., p. 59. — Der Condor Geier, of German authors. — Cabinet 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 



To such a degree has its history been exaggerated by fable, that the 

 mention of the Condor immediately recalls to mind the Roc, of Marco 

 Polo and the Arabian Tales. Some authors have indeed referred this 

 name to it, and even go so far as to make it the subject of one of the 

 labors of Hercules, the destruction of the Stymphalian birds. Such in 

 fact were the stories related by the early travellers, that even when 

 reduced to what in the judgment of BufFon was their real value, it can- 

 not but now appear unaccountable that they should ever have found 

 credence, and still more so that compilers should have gone on accumu- 

 lating under the Condor's history not merely the tales told of it, but 

 others collected from every quarter of the globe, however remote or 

 different in climate, not hesitating to give currency to the most revolting 

 absurdities. The accounts of Father FeuilMe, who was the first 

 describer, Frezier, and especially Hawkesworth's, appear however to be 

 tolerably correct ; while the ardent imagination of Garcilasso led him 

 to indulge in the wildest extravagances in relation to this bird. Abbe- 

 ville and de Laet, no less than Acosta, in his History of the Indies, 



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