. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE KING VULTURE. ptli and glossiness lite, wliieh take a also â white. The upon the feathers, he neck is set a :iiely inclose the lowever, so small, )p of tliG head and intersected at the den sloping of the I with the M'attles ird, but is hard of !st, is in the liahit he collar of white as it sits with its )ossessed no neck dor, amouft which vvitli longitudinal in the more rapid and is celebrated localities. When bund lower tliau eniperatc regions peds of its native als, the Condor is ttack up
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE KING VULTURE. ptli and glossiness lite, wliieh take a also â white. The upon the feathers, he neck is set a :iiely inclose the lowever, so small, )p of tliG head and intersected at the den sloping of the I with the M'attles ird, but is hard of !st, is in the liahit he collar of white as it sits with its )ossessed no neck dor, amouft which vvitli longitudinal in the more rapid and is celebrated localities. When bund lower tliau eniperatc regions peds of its native als, the Condor is ttack upon a cow imb to its winged I the formidable soon succeed in are delivered by ig no match even d)at of endurance curious anecdote )rive it of life. In ved from its neck At last a pistol ee of four paces, 10 and rebound(;d II it had received, or, and whenever lium of the most of notice, as it is the body thrown ry short time the ;ionsly upon the ^ed themselves to ike easy captives ks, the Condoi's 0 made hopeless whicli they have 15 On account of the exriuisitely delicate .scent of « l,i,.,i +1 distinguis] i( ^ all^,in^oit kee L "'i^^'vo Mexicans have inodiHed into the more word Condor ' ''* ^'""^"' '"'"' '"^^ '^"^>i Although the Condor not a very .social bird, it is generally in litf lo n of five or m numlvr, which are .seen either s â â .tcd n,r,ti , i> bttle assemblages rocks, their rnitlines .. sharU ', r u' || / fl ' m ">',"" |''^ '^""'""^^ enl ; , ' ; 1 ' u t dl'.;.^ I n-;^"'f- l''â¢':*' *^'^ ^â¢"^''"i^ the wings were Ibr a monumt J^I^cd a^^i' L^ ti t^i^n'exo"^^ '' ^'T"'^'' [ luclination, the momentum uained hv t .o V -ifi'ini expandrd with an altered «-ith the even and steady IXnlK';; pllpitn^"' """"â ' '" ""â ^" "'"' '-'^^ &quo
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