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Show Trapping the Andean Condor. Anyono who has over watched a hoavy bird rise from the ground has doubtless noticed that it runs nlong tho ground for'a fow feet before It rises; the bird must acquire some momentum mo-mentum before Its wings can 11 tt Its heavy body Into tho air. Tho natives In certain parts or tho Andes .understand .under-stand this fact very woll and by means of It catch tho great Andean vultures, tho condors. A small spaco Is shut In with a high fenco nnd left opon ut the top. Then a lamb or a pleoo of carrion Is placed on the ground Inside. Presently a vulture sees tho hnlt and swoops down upon ' It, but when once ho tlnds ho has alighted on tho ground Inside hu cannot can-not got out, for ho has no running spaco' In which to ocqulro tho momentum momen-tum that Is necessary beloro his wings can lilt him. |