A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada

Abstract

Pp. 35-40, The [Andean] Condor and the Californian Vulture. "The Condor...inhabits the whole chain of the Andes of Mexico, Peru, and Chili, and, on the authority of Lewis and Clark, they are not uncommon in the range of the Rocky Mountains, towards the source of the Missouri, where, in their journey, they are mentioned as enormous bustards; though the bill and the talons of one which was presented to Peale's museum proved the bird to be either the present species, or the nearly allied Vultur californianus." "This bird [Californian vulture] which Menzies brought from California, and deposited in the British Museum, seems, according to Latham, to be of some affinity with the Condor, and almost equals it in size... We are by no means certain that the Vulture met with by Lewis and Clark may, in fact, prove to be the present."