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appear to require discrimination; for, if ac- 
counts be true, South America has Condors 
very differently coloured from each other, 
either through sex, age, or variety. Of 
some, it is said, the bellies are scarlet; but 
the usual colours, as In the specimen in the 
Garden, and as in its neighbour the European 
Gryphon Vulture, are black, white, and gray. 
It is only the male which has large white 
patches on its wings. The female is wholly 
black and gray. It may be observed, that 
while in the male Condor in the Garden the 
quill feathers of the wings are white, and the 
upper parts of the wings black, in the Gry- 
phon Vulture of Kurope, upon the opposite 
side of the cages, the quill feathers are black, 
with the upper part of the wings of a brownish 
or fuscous gray. 
The Condor is not usually found, either 
solitary or in flocks, but in groups of three 
or four; and these are probably the parents 
and offspring of a single family. The female 
is said to keep her young ones with her for a 
whole year. These birds live upon the 
greatest heights of the Andes, which they 
never leave but when pressed by hunger ; 
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