The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects (1854)
Gould, Augustus A. (Augustus Addison), 1805-1866, Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI, Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI · Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company · leaf 422
414 AVES—CONDOR. ing effects, it 1s immediately in a condition to soar to such a pitch as, spite of its magnitude, to become invisible to human sight. In captivity, it appears to have no other desire, than that of obtaining its regular supply of food. So long as that is afforded it, it manifests a… … Tuat the vulgar opinion of the immense size and ferocity of this, the largest of the American birds of prey, should have extended its influence over the minds even of scientific zoologists, can scarcely be regarded as affording 1 Cathartes gryphus, Temmincx. The genus Cathartes has the beak long,…
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