156 VULTURES AND EAGLES. 
and necks, with downy ruffs below, and 
horny combs upon their heads. 
But all the subsisting distinctions between 
the Vulture and the Eagle do not prevent 
them passing under the same names, and be- 
ing mistaken for each other, in all or most of 
the countries where both are seen. In Swit- 
zerland, the name of J.ammer-geyer, or 
_ Lamb-stealer, is given both to the Bearded 
Kagle and to the Gryphon Vulture ; and, in 
South America, the name and description of 
‘the Condor, or what may be called South 
American Gryphon Vulture, are mixed with 
the History of the Harpy Eagle of the same 
country. In the Zoological Garden, we see 
both the Gryphon Vulture of Europe, and 
the Condor, or Gryphon Vulture, of South 
America; anda great degree of similitude 
between the two. The Society is also in | 
possession of a living Harpy Eagle, from 
South America, which will shortly be ex- 
hibited. 
It is to the Harpy Eagle, then, that we 
are to refer all or most of those stories of at- 
tacks, by a large and rapacious bird of South 
America, upon living animals, which we find 
