14 THE NATURAL HISTORY. 
down upon o aan its noife is almoft loud 
enough to make one deaf, 
Sometimes it will venture to attack a boy of - 
ten years of age, and often carries off a theep or - 
a deer, and flies away with it in its talons ; ; and it 
will take little children, if it can find them, to 
feed its young ones. 3 : 
The Condor is found in the Andes, in South 
Ameiica; the Andes are the pant mountains © 
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in the world... 2 is | a 
The claws of the Vulture are not fo hooked 
as thofe of the Eagle, becaufe they walk more 
upon the ground. Their eyes are not at all funk 
in their heads. “They build their nefts amongft 
rocks, very difficult to come at, and lay two or. 
three. eggs. : : oe 
They {mell very difagrecably, and a very ais 
five humour is conftantly running from the nof- 
- trils of fome of them. | 
Under the feathers there is a fine down; ge at: 
_ Grand Cairo their fkins are fold and made into. 
very comfortable drefles, : 
— Genus 
