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a cock, which is irregularly indented at top; part of the throat 
is alfo bare, and a kind of pendulous pear-fhaped fubftance on the 
breaft, in the manner of the King Vulture: the general colour of the 
plumage is black, but the lower part of the neck is furrounded with 
a white ruff, of a fine hairy fubftance: the leffer wing coverts are 
wholly black; the middle ones have greyifh white ends, forming a 
bar when clofed; the greater ones are half black half white, divided 
obliquely; the three firft quills are quite black, the fecond quills 
greyifh white, tipped with black : tail even, thirteen or fourteen 
inches long: thighs covered with longifh feathers: legs ftout, brown ; 
claws blunt, black : bill ftrong, moderately hooked; colour black, 
with a white tip; and noftrils placed in a depreffiun at the bafe. 
When the wings are at reft on the body, the middle of the back ap- 
pears white; which circumftance is obferved by Molina, in his Na- 
tural Hiftory of Chii*. He alfo fays, the irides are of a red brown, 
and that the female is rather fmaller than the male. Thefe birds 
make their nefts among the moft inacceffible rocks, and lay two 
white eggs bigger than thofe cf a turkey; they feed on dead car- 
cafes; and as there are no wolves in Céili, thefe birds ‘fupply the 
place of them, and at times prey on fheep and goats, and even young 
calves, when they {tray far from their dams; and thefe laft they fall 
upon in flocks, firft plucking out their eyes, and foon afterwards 
tearing them in pieces. ‘The country people ufe every means to de- 
ftroy this bird, fometimes by a perfon covering himfelf with the hide 
of a newly fkinned animal, and fo managing, that when the Condur 
attempts to attack the hide, other perfons lying in readinefs coine to 
the affiftance of the firft, and failing on the bird all at once, overcome 
the cnemy; at other times, a dead carcafe is put within a place en- 
clofed with rails, and when the Condur has fatiated himfelf with the 
flefh, and unable to rife ireely, perfons are in readineis to fubdue him 
* Fr. ed. p. 247. 
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