Photo by Scholastic Photo. Co.] [Parson's Green.
CONDOR.
The habit of standing with the wings expanded is a very common one with these birds.
The New World Vultures.
These may be distinguished from their distant relatives of the Old World by the fact that the nostrils are not divided from one another by a partition, and by their much weaker feet. The head and neck in all, as in the true vultures, is more or less bare, and, furthermore, is often very brilliantly coloured, in which last particular these birds differ from the typical vultures.
Photo by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S.] [Regent's Park.
CONDOR.
The bare skin of the head and neck is of a dark purple colour, the ruff encircling the neck being of pure white down-feathers.