Zoological Society bulletin . minutesand the well-drained floor will leave the cagesweet and clean. Although the very name of vulture stands fornoisomeness and ill odor, these birds preferfresh, untainted food, and in captivity will touchnone but the cleanest and best they can get! Asa result, our vultures are free from disagreeableodors, and their plumage is as clean as that ofa thrush. In amiability and good nature theyfar excel their fierce and more dignified rela-tions the hawks and eagles. The sanitary con-ditions are as welcome to these erstwhile scaven-gers as to any of the other inmate
Zoological Society bulletin . minutesand the well-drained floor will leave the cagesweet and clean. Although the very name of vulture stands fornoisomeness and ill odor, these birds preferfresh, untainted food, and in captivity will touchnone but the cleanest and best they can get! Asa result, our vultures are free from disagreeableodors, and their plumage is as clean as that ofa thrush. In amiability and good nature theyfar excel their fierce and more dignified rela-tions the hawks and eagles. The sanitary con-ditions are as welcome to these erstwhile scaven-gers as to any of the other inmates. The New World Vultures, forming the OrderCathartidiformes, were described in BulletinsNo. 31 and No. 32, and only cursory mentionwill be undertaken here. The Condor (Sarcorhamphus gryphus) of theAndes, is becoming a very rare bird in is being slaughtered for its quills, formillinery purposes. Fortunately, it is mosttenacious of life, and our old male which arrivedon November 30, 1899, is still with us, after a. SOUTH AMERICAN CONDOR 888 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN .9 ?•Br/ ^w SO ;-^ DUCK HAWK period of nearly thirteen years. He now has ascage mates, a pair of younger specimens, withwhich he keeps on terms of armed neutrality. The King Vulture (Gypagus papa) is a SouthAmerican bird, the scarcity of which is nearlyequal to that of the condor. This is a remark-ably handsome bird and the brilliant colorationof our two specimens seems strangely out ofplace among their sombre neighbors. The Black and Turkey Vultures of North andSouth America, are divided into two subspecieseach, all being represented in the collection. TheNorth American Black Vulture (Catharistaurubu urubu) is distinguished from the SouthAmerican form (Catliarista urubu brasiliensis)chiefly by its larger size. The South AmericanTurkey Vulture (Cathartes aura aura) is notonly much smaller than the North Americanbird (Cathartes aura septentrionalis) but differsalso in the proportions of its head and b
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