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THE MAGELLANIC VULTURE. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftrait, hooked at the tip. 



Head commonly bare of feathers, with a naked fkin in front. 



Tongue bifid. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Black Vulture, with the fliorter wing-feathers white with black tips, and 



naked throat. 

 The Condor. 



F the tales related by Ibme of the early defcribers of the natural produAions 

 of America have any foundation in truth, there exifts fomewhere in that 

 cxtenfive continent a bird whofe enormous magnitude and prodigious powers 

 of deftrudbion far exceed all that the largeft feathered tyrants of the ancient 

 hemifphere can boaft, and all that the more fober philofophic faith of 

 European naturalifts can eafily be induced to admit. Thefe writers afTure us 

 that the fpecies of Vulture called the Condor is capable of fhatching up and 

 cariying off boys of ten years of age and upwards ; and that a pair of thefe 

 deftroyers in concert will attack a heifer in the midft of a field and tear it in 

 pieces with the mod perfedl eafe. It is imagined that this dreadful vulture 

 has given rife to the exaggerated defcription of the bird which makes fo 



conspicuous. 



