400 CONDOR. 
outer, which is only six inches long, while the middle is ten. 
All the twenty are narrow, tapering, acute, and falciform, 
turning inward. Those towards the middle are less curved, 
but more conspicuously acuminate and narrow for nearly two 
inches, all but the middle ones being slightly square at their 
narrow tips. 
Though we have reason to believe that the specimen de- 
scribed and figured is a female, yet, from the broad patch upon 
the belly, and other marks unnecessary to be specified, we 
should not be surprised at its being a young male just begin- 
ning to change. In that case, and supposing him to have 
attained his full growth, this species would prove to be inferior 
in size to the cock of the woods, as its male would only be 
equal to the female of the latter. 
CONDOR. (Cathartes gryphus.) 
PLATE XXII.—Youne MALE. 
Vultur gryphus, Linn. Syst. i. p. 121, sp. 1.—Gmel. Syst. i. p. 245, sp. 1.—Lath. 
Ind. Orn. i. p. 1, sp.1.—Eneyel. Brit. xviii. p. 695, pl. 510.—Humboldt, 
Hist. Nat. in Obs. Zool. i. p. 26, pl. 8, 9.—Vultur Magellanicus, Lever. Mus. 
p. 1, pl. 1, female.—Vultur condor, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 8.—Shaw, Zool. vii. . 
p. 2, pl. 2, 3, 4.—Cathartes gryphus, Temm. Ranz. Nob. Cat. and Syn. Bds. 
U.S. sp. 2.—Gypagus griffus, Vieill. Enc. iii. p. 1174.—Id. Nouv. Dict.— 
Sarcoramphus cuntur, Dumeril.—Sarcoramphus gryphus, Goldfuss, Nat. 
Atlas, pl. 107, adult male.—Sarcorampbus condor, Less. Orn. i. pl. 7, 
adult male.—Vultur gryps gryphus, Klein, Av. p. 45.—Briss. Av. i. p. 
473; Id. 8vo, p. 187.—Borowski, Nat. li. p. 62.—Cuntur, Laet. Am. p. 401. 
—Ray, Av. p. 11.—Catarte condoro, Ranz. Elem. vii. p. 24, sp. 2, tab. xxii. 
fig. 2, adult male.—Il Condoro, Molina, St. Nat. Chili, p. 223.—Manque, 
Molina, Chili, p. 236 (French edition).—Condor, Frezier, Voy. p. iti.—DLa 
Condamine, Voy. Amaz. p. 175.—Briss. Orn. i. p. 463, sp. 12.—Buff. Ois. 1. 
p. 184; Id. (ed. 1770) i. p. 143, v.—Martinet, Hist. Ois.—Le Condor, ou 
Grand Vautour des Andes, Cuv. Regn. An. i. p. 306; Id. 2d ed. p. 316.— 
Catharte Condor, Temm. and Laug. Pl. Col. 133, adult male, 494, head of 
the adult living male, 408, young female.—Condur Vulture, Lath. Syn. p. 
4; Id. Suppl. p.1; Id. Suppl. ii. p. 1, pl. exx.—Id. Gen. Hist. i. p. 4, pl. 
1, adult male.—Hawkesw. Voy. i. p. 75.— Wood’s Zoography, i. p. 371.— 
Stevenson, Voy. Am. ii. p. 59.—Der Condor Geier, of German authors.— 
Cabinet of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 
To such a degree has its history been exaggerated by fable, 
that the mention of the condor immediately recalls to mind 
