92 Mr. J. II. Guniey's Notes on 



that the large southern race extends to Chili ; but whether it 

 extends to Peru also is, I believe, at present uncertain. If, 

 however, such should be the fact, I apprehend that the south- 

 ern bird must in that case stand as Sarcorhamphus gryphus, 

 and that some other name must be assigned to its smaller- 

 combed and more northern congener. 



Mr. Bartlett has been good enough to inform me that 

 in July 1870, when the Zoological Society of London pur- 

 chased a fine adult male of the southern Condor, which was 

 brought from Chili by Mr. Weisshaupt, the same collector also 

 brought thence " three or four young birds in their immature 

 plumage, which, notwithstanding, exhibited in a very re- 

 markable manner the comb and wattles,''^ Mr. Bartlett adds 

 that these young birds were larger than the adults of the 

 small-combed race which were already in the Society^s pos- 

 session. 



On the other hand, Dr. Sclater writes to me respecting a 

 male of the small-combed species which lived for forty-five 

 years in Wombwell's Menagerie, and was subsequently pur- 

 chased by the Zoological Society, in the following terms : — 

 " It certainly has not the extra development of comb and 

 wattle which our Chilian bird had, and which are shown in 

 Temminck^s ^Planches Coloriees^ (pi. 494).^^ 



It is therefore certain that the difference in the comb and 

 wattles of the males of the two races is not due to differences 

 of age, as might at first sight have been supposed. 



The splendid adult male of the southern Condor above re- 

 ferred to, which was brought from Chili, and was formerly in 

 the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, passed, at 

 its death, into the hands of Mr. E. Gerrai'd, jun., who in- 

 forms me that its skeleton is now in the collection of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons at Dubhn, where it may afford the 

 means of ascertaining whether any osteological differences of 

 structure exist between this species and its more northern 

 small-combed congener. 



The entire plumage of the young birds of both these races 

 of Condor is of a nearly uniform vinous brown; and Mr. 

 Bartlett has known immature specimens of the small-combed 



