Children's own library . ils. The third primary feather is thelongest. The Condor inhabits the Andes of South America. Itis a very large bird. The expanse-of wing is aboutnine or ten feet, and the length of the bird about threefeet. It is exceedingly strong and tenacious of life. The Vultures are carrion-devouring animals, and donot attack living animals. The neck of the Vulture isalmost naked, very slightly sprinkled with down. They display marvellous quickness in discovering adead animal, to which they fly with great speed. The Griffon Vulture is found in almost all parts of theOld World. It
Children's own library . ils. The third primary feather is thelongest. The Condor inhabits the Andes of South America. Itis a very large bird. The expanse-of wing is aboutnine or ten feet, and the length of the bird about threefeet. It is exceedingly strong and tenacious of life. The Vultures are carrion-devouring animals, and donot attack living animals. The neck of the Vulture isalmost naked, very slightly sprinkled with down. They display marvellous quickness in discovering adead animal, to which they fly with great speed. The Griffon Vulture is found in almost all parts of theOld World. It is one of the largest of its group, meas-uring upward of four feet in length. Like most of thevultures, it does not appear to move its wings whileflying, but soars on expanded pinions in large circles. • Vultures are generally protected by the natives of thecountries where they reside, on account of their greatutility in clearing away the putrid animal matter, whichwould otherwise be injurious as well as THE LAMMERGEYER, OR VULTURE woods natural history 115 Eagles. The wings of the Golden Eagle are large,powerful, and slightly rounded, the fourth primary
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