Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — The Condor of Peru. [ARTICLE]

The Condor of Peru.

First of all the birds of Peru comes the condor, a sober, staid-looking individual with a black coat, white collar and a shaven crown. He has also a touch of white on his wings—cuffs one might call them. The females are distinctly black without a touch of color, though there is a little white on their wings. Hideous brutes they are to look at near to, and if you manage to shoot one you will find him swarming with the most loathsome parasites; but they are a grand sight up Against the sky, sailing swiftly on their great twenty-foot spread of wing or hovering for hours as motionless as if they were painted against the blue.