Show TILE THE CONDOR J condor is r a native cativo of tho the mountain chain ot of tho the andes imd and li is OD of 1110 aug ell eat ot 1 the abo birds bird of prey tho the average to ex P panao a of tho the cordura coo con dura does wings wine in t from flight eight I 1 10 0 1 aioo I f foot to and the ibe length of the body from tho the point 0 ot of tho the beak acate to tho the extremity of the tell tail three feet and five or six alx lx inches the color of the condor is fa a grayish black the wings winea aro arc marked witti white mid and thero li is a collur cobar of davs downy ny whito white feath em or about tho the neck tho the creat ot of tho the me male I 1 to 11 quite largo inico tho the internal lu of the condor presents some orao curious foater foat orca a tho the aimard Eisin rd is provided with di net rows roval of boray spikes which aro are up posed to result the bird to ia tho the rapid diges tion lion of its read food these birds birda often attack cows cow bulls bulb and aller and as their assaults at aro a chiefly dj di erected apon tho the eyo eyes they abc y blind their vie me um tire nud A they soon fall byrbe by tho blows winch oro OLIO upon them by the tb beaks ot of the bardl the condor is very strong and even when wounded a powerful ina man a is ia no DO match for one ona of the anat have brebt to t thee ta ill bardi r da and if they capture ono one of them elive they torture it very acry cruelly city their modo of capture li is an follows follo wg they kill an adijat and the body in tho the open tur tho the condors condor anon in large lar numbers and feast upon the flesh adtoon an they are gorged to tho the tuu full tho the indiana baah in among them and capture them with their when abon they feel tho the booso around their decks they hey endeavor ondo to reject the vo bich they have awa od but are mado made captives captive before they are ablo able to nd thorn soleo of the tho the flight of these birds is grand and beautiful t they seem eom to fly by moving the head bead imd and neck rather than tho the although there hate begin condors in tho the zoological gardens at dreadon rime 1674 it is ia only recently that anything any has beccu found out ia regard to tho the length of ilia iho demon their habits babito at the time their manner of boeding their young etc very little hen baa been of 0 tho the babits of at these there birds until lately as aa they live at ab A height of from to feet and oaly como jona down to the lower ion or points pointe in barch ach of proy pray the indiana that the eggs are laid upon the abo bare rock the bird making no BO neat whatever lisi bever I 1 iho he condors condora in dresden commenced iny ing iu to april 1677 and after abat laid from two to three egan ergs yearly in april or mety but unfortunately they thay crushed their eggs or ator after playing with them several days lut last year a scott of dried branches brouch cB feathers and wool was rawle in tho the tot top of tho the cage about two betrea front from tho the ground sod aad it wan vaa thought that the iho birdo binl would avail themselves of it loose LOOM material for neat was also alao put ju in tho the cage but tho the for laid imd her bar eppa eggs in m tho the send as 01 before and loth both tho the eggs wore roon men destroyed tho kamo thing this year in the middio of april shortly after the birds were removed into tile tho largo summer Alm quarters arters of tho the birja birds of prey broyt and aad the female laid nn an egg on tho the ath of may to la a dark corner of tho the cago cage the next day the malo commenced to brood all the materials for a no noat a t that thab the keophi keepen laid it under and about the egg acro ere rejected and d scratched away and the aba brooding went on upon the grav prated i bottom of the cage the malo devoted him oe it to tho the brooding the greater part of tho timo tho the indolent demalo only setting botting upon the tha egg about a thud third of tho the time lima 0 on j july y ath after nearly eight weeks th tho a keeper ano 0 that he bo had dincov arod 0 ad lifo life la in the begir rf ml and on the tha uma sama day rent wax was perceived in the hell the next day tho the bird bad almost from tho the on acl 11 only oly uio me head anil and neck in and uti on tho the follomon follo follow mog Log day this bird was waa entirely freed since thou thon the old birds have been very busily employed in sinn ginny t the little one tho the necessary st arenth arbth ari nth and be have ainu oual equal anxiety in reading it with horse haib and small pieces of cat and dog flesh the little follow with its fent feathers heri looks something like a young ol as 01 L ito bead end find and neck are arc julto black it if any an ono approach oi it commences commo occa already to utter angry erica cries and the old birds bird aro are cc BO ugly that tho the keeper can only enter the co mac c armed tho the brooding continued for foi eight ecks lose one day camol says nya in ia big bia natural Ui HiAt story tory that a co udora does egg was is as hatched batched in six aix weeks coke and two tiny by rhen n ben this may be on account of the nest 1 shirb hib the bon hod bal 1 ho he young youn bird on tho the first day mom un 1 ten in length and on the twentieth day twenty eight centime trea tho the condors oro lure fond of bat hin g it and nd otton otte D sit it attica their eggs with their wot feathera feath tra ten ate amrid |