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The Unknown Andean Condor
The Unknown Andean Condor
The Unknown Andean Condor
6 Further Assessment of the Lawndale Incident.
“It looked like a prehistoric bird. It was really fantastic. The head didn’t have any feathers and it had a long neck, crooked, kind of ‘S’ shaped. The body was covered with feathers and was gray or charcoal-colored.”
Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus as illustrated by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies [C.G. Davies]
Engraving by J. C. Whichelo
“The Condor Vulture, the largest known at present[] is found only in South America, and has made its name terrible to the Natives by the attacks which it sometimes makes upon living animals, and in some cases even upon the human species. Some writers have confidently affirmed that it has been known to carry away Children where an opportunity has offered; and two of these birds have been seen to attack a full-grown heifer, and ultimately destroy it, by tearing it in pieces.”
Written August 30, 2016.
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