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  Mr, 
  J. 
  H. 
  Gurney 
  on 
  Raptorial 
  

  

  The 
  great 
  Condor 
  from 
  Chili 
  and 
  the 
  Straits 
  of 
  Magellan, 
  

   Sai-corhamjjhus 
  magellanicus 
  (Shaw), 
  must, 
  if 
  possible, 
  be 
  

   obtained 
  some 
  day. 
  My 
  father 
  was 
  doubtful 
  about 
  S. 
  magel- 
  

   lanicus, 
  and 
  was 
  still 
  less 
  of 
  a 
  believer 
  in 
  the 
  permanently 
  

   brown 
  Condor 
  which 
  has 
  received 
  the 
  name 
  S. 
  cequatorialis. 
  

   Of 
  one 
  alluded 
  to 
  in 
  his 
  ' 
  List 
  ' 
  (which 
  is 
  figured 
  in 
  the 
  

   Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1883, 
  pi. 
  xxxv.) 
  he 
  notes 
  : 
  — 
  '' 
  The 
  specimen 
  

   figured 
  was, 
  I 
  think, 
  certainly 
  a 
  young 
  female 
  of 
  the 
  common 
  

   s^jecies 
  ; 
  it 
  died 
  about 
  June 
  1885, 
  before 
  which 
  time 
  the 
  

   ruff 
  had 
  begun 
  to 
  show 
  puffs 
  of 
  white 
  down. 
  Dark 
  grey 
  

   feathers 
  began 
  to 
  appear 
  on 
  the 
  mantle, 
  and 
  two 
  light 
  grey 
  

   feathers 
  appeared 
  amongst 
  the 
  greater 
  wing-coverts. 
  The 
  

   irides 
  were 
  beginning 
  to 
  assume 
  a 
  tinge 
  of 
  garnet-red." 
  — 
  

   J. 
  H. 
  G. 
  {MS.) 
  . 
  After 
  examining 
  this 
  Condor 
  on 
  the 
  14th 
  of 
  

   February, 
  1885, 
  he 
  writes 
  : 
  — 
  " 
  The 
  irides 
  are 
  now 
  decidedly 
  

   garnet-coloured, 
  though 
  not 
  as 
  brightly 
  so 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  adult 
  

   female 
  Condor, 
  and 
  all 
  the 
  parts 
  which 
  are 
  white 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  

   have 
  become 
  sensibly 
  paler^ 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  feathers 
  being 
  tinged 
  

   with 
  yellowish 
  white 
  disposed 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  in 
  patches.'^ 
  

   A 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  bird 
  was 
  given 
  him 
  by 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  G. 
  

   Goodchild 
  the 
  following 
  April, 
  and 
  soon 
  after 
  it 
  died. 
  A 
  

   sketch 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Goodchild 
  sent 
  by 
  him 
  to 
  my 
  father 
  in 
  

   July 
  1884 
  shows 
  the 
  white 
  down 
  of 
  the 
  ruff, 
  but 
  not 
  the 
  

   grey 
  feathers 
  in 
  the 
  wing, 
  which 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  assumed 
  

   later. 
  It 
  was 
  nine 
  years 
  old 
  or 
  more 
  when 
  it 
  died, 
  and 
  that 
  

   was 
  the 
  same 
  age 
  to 
  which 
  the 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  Central 
  Park 
  

   Menagerie, 
  New 
  York, 
  lived 
  ('Auk,' 
  1885, 
  p. 
  170). 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  Common 
  Condor 
  the 
  Museum 
  has 
  a 
  fine 
  adult 
  pair, 
  

   two 
  young 
  birds, 
  and 
  an 
  egg. 
  

  

  Turning 
  again 
  to 
  the 
  Old 
  World, 
  there 
  is, 
  perhaps, 
  nothing 
  

   our 
  Committee 
  would 
  be 
  better 
  pleased 
  to 
  obtain 
  than 
  a 
  skin 
  

   of 
  Tinnunculus 
  alopew 
  of 
  Sennaar, 
  Kordofan, 
  and 
  the 
  Blue 
  

   Nile. 
  Other 
  African 
  birds 
  which 
  the 
  Museum 
  requires 
  from 
  

   the 
  Dark 
  Continent, 
  now 
  being 
  opened 
  up 
  by 
  so 
  many 
  ex- 
  

   plorers, 
  are 
  Melierax 
  poliopterus, 
  Cabanis, 
  from 
  Somaliland, 
  

   and 
  Machcem-hamphus 
  revoili, 
  Oustalet, 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  country. 
  

   The 
  latter 
  is 
  stated 
  by 
  the 
  French 
  naturalist 
  who 
  described 
  it 
  

   to 
  resemble 
  M. 
  anderssoni 
  in 
  its 
  wings 
  and 
  tail, 
  and 
  M. 
  alcimis 
  

  

  