THE LARGEST BIRDS THAT FLY 



339 



13 feet, while the largest out of several which he 

 shot in Chili measured exactly 15 feet from tip to tip 

 when pulled out fairly and not too hard. " It was," 

 he says, "a very powerful, heavy bird, with legs 

 almost as thick as my wrist, and the middle claw or 

 finger, which I kept, was 7 in. in length." Mr N. 

 E. Bieber, writing in the Field of February 11, 



THE CONDOK. 



1899, on " Deer Shooting in Bolivia," remarks 

 incidentally that a good-sized male Condor will 

 measure 15 feet across the wings, thus confirming 

 the observation long previously made by Captain 

 Byam, a good sportsman and accurate writer. 



Dr Robert Cunningham, in his Natural History 

 of the Strait of Magellan (1871), describing an 

 exploration of the Patagonian coast between Cape 

 Possession and Dungeness Spit, recounts his falling' 



