VULTURir. 



l.—CONDUR— Plate I. 



VulturGryphus, /wrf. Oni. i. p.l. Lin.Syst.'i. 121. Gm.Lin.\. 245. Klein. Ac. f.4S. 



Bris. Orn. i. 473. Id. 8vo. 137. Borowsck. Nat. ii. 62. Encycl. Brit, xviii. ()95j 



pi. 510. Raii. Syn. p. 11. Humhold. Voy. pi. 8. 9. 

 VulturMagellanicus, Lev. Miis. p. i. pi. 1. female. 

 Vultiir Condor, Condur, Buf. ois. i. 184. Fres. Voy. p. 111. Condam. Voy. 175. Molih. 



Chil. 236. /rf. Fr. ed". 247. Daud. Orn. ii. p. 8. Shaw's Zool. vii. p. 2. pi. 2. 3. 4i 

 Catharte, Tem. Mart. eA.2. Anal. p. xlviii. 

 Sarcoramphus, Vultur, Dum. 

 Condur Vulture, Gen. Syn. i. p. 4. /</. Sup. p. 1. Jrf. 5'm/j. ii. p. 1. pi. 1. Hau-kesio^ 



Voy. i. p. 75. Wood's Zoogr. i. p. 371. 



THE Condur, till within these few years, 1ms remained in 

 great obscurity, having Ijeen confounded with others of the same 

 genus, but as the Leverian Museum was fortunately in possession of 

 two specimens in complete plumage^ we have been enabled to give 

 the following description. 



The first of these, in appearance a full-grown male, measured, 

 from the tip of one wing to that of the otlier, full ten feet. The 

 bill strong, moderately hooked, black, with a whitish tip ; nostrils 

 near the base, and depressed. The head and neck covered with 

 cinereous do^Mi ; on the crown, a long caruneulated membrane, as in 

 the cock, irregularly indented on the top ; part of the throat bare, 

 with the appearance of a dilatable pouch, and a kind of pear-shaped 

 pendulous suljstance in the breast, as in the King Vulture ; on the 

 sides of the neck, a series of seven or eight wrinkled protuberances, 

 not unlike those in the turkey. The lower part of the neck sur- 

 rounded with a Avhite ruff, composed of long fine feathers, of a 

 hairy texture. Lesser wing coverts whollj- black, the middle ones 

 the same, with grejnsh white ends, forming a bar when closed ; 

 the greater, half black and half white, divided oblicpiely : three 

 first quills black, the secondaries white, tipped with black. Tail 



