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Mufeum, has long fince difpelled every doubt relative to the fpecics ; and 

 it is perfeftly clear, that the former fpecimen, or Vultur Magellanicus, was 

 the female Condor in a lefs advanced flate of growth. 



By this highly intcrefling fpecimen we are enabled to afcertain with prc- 

 cifion many particulars relative to the appearance of the bird which have hi- 

 therto efcaped obfervation. Of thefe one of the moft remarkable is a kind 

 of gular pouch, or large dilated fkin, of a blucifh color, proceeding from 

 the bafe of the lower mandible^ and reaching to fome diftance down the neck. 

 On each fide the neck is alfo fituated a row or feries of flat, carneous, femi- 

 circular, or ear-fliaped flaps or appendages, to the number of feven on each 

 fide, and which gradually decreafe in fize as they defccnd ; being fo difpofed 

 as to lap flightly over each other. The whole neck and bread are of a red 

 color, and perfectly bare of feathers ; being only coated here and there with 

 a few ftraggling filaments of blackilh hair or coarfe down. The color of the 

 lateral wattles or carunculse inclines to blucifli. The crefl, or comb on the 

 head, is large, upright, thick at the bafe, fharpened on its edge, and not en- 

 tirely even in its outline, but fomewhat finuated, finking flightly in the 

 middle, and rifing higher on the back part. It is fmooth, and irregularly 

 convex on the fides, and in its texture or fubftance not greatly dillimilar to 

 that of the Vultur Papa of Linnaeus, or King Vulture. At a flight diftance 

 behind this, on each fide, is fituated a much fmaller femi-oval nuchal crefl 

 of a fimilar fubftance, and befet with coarfe down. The color of the creft 

 is blackifh, flightly inclining to reddifh and blueifli in fome parts. Towards 

 the lower part of the neck is the fame kind of pear-lhaped pendent tubercle 

 as in the female bird before defcribed, and which, in every refpedl indeed 

 except in fize, it perfedlly refemblcs. The extent of this bird from wing's 

 end to wing's end is about fourteen feet. 



This fpecimen affords an opportunity of correfting a very important error 

 in the defcriptions of the Condor given by general obfervers, who fccm to 



have 



