2 CONDOR VULTURE. 



kind of scavengers, wisely appointed by Provi- 

 dence, for clearing away the noxious remains of 

 animal matter. 



CONDOR VULTURE 



" Vultur Condor. V. niger, remigibus secondariis albis, caruncula 



vcrticali compre'ssa, gula mi da rubra, collo utrinque carunculato. 



Museum Leverianum. Nu. 6, p. 1. 



Black Vulture, with the shorter wing- feathers white; the head 



furnished with an upright, compressed, fleshy crest or comb - 7 



the throat naked and red ; the neck carunculated on each 



side. 



Vultur Magellanicus. ) ,, T 



,, • t T , > museum Lever immm. No.l.v.l. 



Magellanic Vulture. ) r 



Vultur Gryphus. V. maximus, caruncula verticali longitudine 



capitis;, gida nuda. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



The chief of the Vulture tribe, if the descriptions 

 given by those who have seen the full-grown bird 

 in its native regions may be depended upon, is 

 undoubtedly the Condor. This bird is a native of 

 many parts of South America, but is supposed to 

 be more frequently seen in Peru than elsewhere. 

 Some authors have affirmed that it is capable of 

 snatching up and carrying off boys of ten years of 

 age and upwards, and that a pair of these destroyers 

 in concert will attack a heifer in the midst of a 

 field, and tear it in pieces with the most perfect 

 ease. In the Phil. Trans, vo!. 18, p. 61, is a 

 description of the quills of a bird of this kind which 

 was shot in Chili, and which bird measured sixteen 



