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Sri:iuxKK's SONS. ] GAUCHOS LASSOING CONDORS. some occasions I am sure that they do this only for pleasure, but on others, the Chileno countryman tells you that they are watching a dying animal, or the puma devouring its prey. If the condors glide down, and then suddenly all rise together, the Chileno knows that it is the puma which, watching the carcase, has sprung out to drive away the robbers. Besides feeding on carrion, the condors frequently 270 DIURNAL BIRDS OF PREY. attack young goats an...d lambs ; and the shepherd dogs are trained, whenever they pass over, to run out, and looking upwards to bark violently. " From the feeble grasping power of their feet, and especially the small size of the first toe, it is perfectly evident that condors cannot carry off animals of any size, and all the legends of their flying away with children may be discredited. Frequently roosting in trees on the lower grounds during a considerable portion of the year, in the breeding-season condors retire to the most inaccessible parts of the mountains or sea-cliffs.
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