. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. U. »5' 828 CONDOR. shapeless moss. Even at two years old the Condor is by no means black, but of an obscure fulvous bro^n, and both sexes are then desti- tute of the white collar. The following description and admeasurements are from a pair of young living birds, said to be nine months old, caught on the Peruvian Andes. One of these (which are precisely alike) was captured by an Indian, who discovering two in the nest, ran up at great speed, fearing to be overtaken by the old ones, a
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. U. »5' 828 CONDOR. shapeless moss. Even at two years old the Condor is by no means black, but of an obscure fulvous bro^n, and both sexes are then desti- tute of the white collar. The following description and admeasurements are from a pair of young living birds, said to be nine months old, caught on the Peruvian Andes. One of these (which are precisely alike) was captured by an Indian, who discovering two in the nest, ran up at great speed, fearing to be overtaken by the old ones, and succeeded in securing it by putting it in his pocket, not larger than a full grown chicken. I have carefully compared this with, and found perfectly siuiilar to it, a bill and a (luill- fcather brought from the Columbia river by Lewis and Clark and pre- served in the Philadelphia Museum. These remains prove the existence of the Condor within the United Stages, and sufficiently authorize its introduction into this work. Length three foet nine inches. Breadth nine feet. Bill to the corner of the mouth two inches six-eighths; to the cere one inch and a half, to the down three and a quarter inches. Bill curved and hooked, with several flexures; upper mandible passing over the lower, which is rounded and scalloped: nostrils pervious, roun<led-elliplical, cut in the cere. Bill outside, cere, and all the surrounding naked parts black; ears without any covering, the skin rugose : inside of the bill yellowish white, margined with black, palate furnished with a fleshy skin, having the appearance of a row of teeth in the middle, then of a hard ridge looking like a file, and two murginal rows : tongue broadly concave, and serrated on the turrod up edges with sharp pointed cutting serratures: an elevation of the skin indicating the frontal caruncle ; the place where the bristles begin to appear is also indicated by an elevation. Ey â full and rounded: iris blackish: membrane of the
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