See also:

• CONDOR (Sarcorhamphus gryphus)

CONDOR (Sarcorhamphus gryphus)  , an See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• VULTURE

vulture, and almost the largest of existing birds of See also:

• FLIGHT

flight, although by no means attaining the dimensions attributed to it by See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early writers . It usually See also:

• MEASURES

measures about 4 ft. from the point of the See also:

• BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)

beak to the extremity of the tail, and 9 ft. between the tips of its wings, while it is probable that the expanse of wing never exceeds 12 ft . The See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head and See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck are destitute of feathers, and the former, which is much flattened above, is in the male crowned with a caruncle or See also:

• COMB (a word common in various forms to Teut. languages, cf. Ger. Kamm, the Indo-Europ. origin of which is seen in yoµros, a peg or pin, and Sanskrit, gambhas, a tooth)

comb, while the skin of the latter in. the same See also:

• SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex lies in folds, forming a wattle . The adult plumage is of a See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black, with the exception of a frill of See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white feathers nearly surrounding the See also:

• BASE

base of the neck, and certain wing feathers which, especially in the male, have large patches of white . The See also:

• MIDDLE

middle toe is greatly elongated, and the hinder one but slightly See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed, while the talons of all the toes are comparatively straight and See also:

• BLUNT, JOHN HENRY (1823–1884)
• BLUNT, JOHN JAMES (1794–1855)
• BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN (184o— )

blunt, and are thus of little use as See also:

• ORGANS

organs of prehension . The See also:

• FEMALE

female, contrary to the usual See also:

• RULE

rule among birds of See also:

• PREY (0. Fr. preie, mod. proie, Lat. praeda, booty, from prae and the root hed—seen in prehendere, prendere, to grasp)

prey, is smaller than the male . The See also:

• CONDOR (Sarcorhamphus gryphus)

condor is a native of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AMERICA

America, where it, is confined to the region of the See also:

• ANDES

Andes, from the Straits of See also:

• MAGELLAN, FERDINAND (in Sp. FERNANDO MAGALLANES, in Port. FERNAO DE MAGALHAES) (c. 1480-152I)

Magellan to 40 See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north See also:

• LATITUDE (Lat. latitudo, latus, broad)

latitude, the largest examples, it is said, being found about the See also:

• VOLCANO

volcano of Cayambi, situated on the See also:

• EQUATOR (Late Lat. aequator, from aequare, to make equal)

equator . It is often seen on the shores of the Pacific, especially during the See also:

• RAINY, ROBERT (1826-1906)

rainy See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, but its favourite haunts for roosting and breeding are at elevations of 10,000 to 16,000 ft .. There, during the months of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February and See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March, on inaccessible ledges of See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock, it deposits two white eggs, from 3 to 4 in. in length, its See also:

• NEST

nest consisting merely of a few sticks placed around the eggs: The See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of See also:

• INCUBATION

incubation lasts for seven See also:

• WEEKS, EDWIN LORD (1849-1903)

weeks, and the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young are covered with a whitish down until almost as large as their parents . They are unable to See also:

• FLY (formed on the root of the supposed original Tent. fleugan, to fly)

fly till. nearly two years old, and continue for a considerable See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time after taking wing to roost and See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

hunt with their parents . The white See also:

• RUFF

ruff on the neck, and the similarly coloured feathers of the wing, do not appear until the completion of the first moulting . By preference the condor feeds on carrion, but it does not hesitate to attack See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep, goats and See also:

• DEER (O. E. rigor, dfor, a common Teutonic word, meaning a wild animal, cf. Ger. Tier, Du. dier, &c., probably from a root dhus-, to breathe)
• DEER, CHINESE

deer, and for this See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason it is hunted down by the shepherds, who, it is said, See also:

• TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train their See also:

• DOGS, ISLE OF

dogs to look up and bark at'the condors as they fly overhead .

They are exceedingly voracious, a single condor of moderate See also:

• SIZE

size having been known, according to See also:

• ORTON, JOB (1717–1783)

Orton, to devour a See also:

• CALF
• CALF, THE GOLDEN

calf, a sheep and a See also:

• DOG

dog in a single See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week . When thus .gorged with See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food, they are exceedingly stupid, and may then be readily caught . For this purpose a See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse or muleis killed, and the carcase surrounded with palisades to which the condors are soon attracted by the prospect of food, for the See also:

• WEIGHT

weight of See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence seems to favour the See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion that those vultures owe their knowledge of the presence of carrion more to sight than to See also:

• SCENT

scent . Having feasted themselves to excess, they are set upon by the hunters with sticks, and being unable, owing to the want of space within the See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen, to take the run without which they are unable to rise on wing, they are readily killed or captured . They See also:

• SLEEP (0. Eng. slcepan; Ger. schlafen; cf. Lat. labi, to glide, and " slip ")

sleep during the greater See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, searching for food in the clearer See also:

• LIGHT

light of See also:

• MORNING

morning and evening . They are remarkably heavy sleepers, and are readily captured by the inhabitants ascending the trees on which they roost, and noosing them before they awaken . See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers of condors are thus taken alive, and these, in certain districts, are employed in a variety of See also:

• BULL
• BULL, GEORGE (1634–1710)
• BULL, JOHN (c. 1562–1628)
• BULL, OLE BORNEMANN (18ro-188o)

bull-fighting . They are exceedingly tenacious of See also:

• LIFE

life, and can exist, it is said, without food for over See also:

• FORTY

forty days . Although the favourite haunts of the condor are at the level of perpetual See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow, yet it rises to a much greater height, . See also:

• HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER, BARON
• HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON (1767-1835)

Humboldt having observed it flying over Chimborazo at a height of over 23,000 ft . On wing the movements of the condor, as it wheels in majestic circles, are remarkably graceful . The birds flap their wings on rising from the ground, but after attaining a moderate See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation they seem to See also:

• SAIL

sail on the See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air, See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1809-1882)
• DARWIN, ERASMUS (1731-1802)

Darwin having watched them for See also:

• HALF

half an See also:

• HOUR

hour without once observing a flap of their wings .