 When the condors are wheeling in a flock round and round any spot, their flight is beautiful. Except when rising from the ground, I do not recollect ever having seen one of these birds flap its wings.  Nature - Page 82edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1853 - 516 pages
...the condor vultures, the writer of which asserts, that except when rising from the ground, he does not recollect ever having seen one of these birds flap its wings : " if the bird wished to descend, the wings were for a moment collapsed, and then again expanded with... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1853 - 564 pages
...the condor vultures, the writer of which asserts, that except when rising from the ground, he does not recollect ever having seen one of these birds flap its wings : " if the bird wished to descend, the wings were for a moment collapsed, and then again expanded with... | |
 | John George Wood - Historia natural - 1862 - 804 pages
...that of the wings. Mr. Darwin gives the following animated description of the flight of the Condor. " Except when rising from the ground, I do not recollect ever having seen one of these buds flap its wings. Near Lima I watched several for nearly half an hour without once taking off my... | |
 | Aeronautical Society of Great Britain - Aeronautics - 1883 - 488 pages
...run, it cannot give its body sufficient momentum to rise from the ground." On page 186 he says : " When the condors are wheeling in a flock round and...its wings. Near Lima,. I watched several for nearly half-an-hour, without once taking: off my eyes ; they moved in large curves, sweeping in circles, descending... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1870 - 512 pages
...gives a similar account of the flight of the condor. 'Except when rising from the ground,' he says, 4I do not recollect ever having seen one of these birds...several for nearly half an hour, without once taking oft' my eyes : they moved in large curves, sweeping in circles, descending and ascending without giving... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 968 pages
...explanation. Darwin, in his " Voyage of the Beagle," speaking of the condors of South America, says : " Except when rising from the ground I do not recollect...several for nearly half an hour, without once taking my eyes off them. They moved in large curves, sweeping in circles, descending and ascending, without... | |
 | Horse racing - 1876 - 760 pages
...feet above the crater of Pichincha." Darwin writes of the flying powers of this royal bird : — " When the condors are wheeling in a flock round and...not recollect ever having seen one of these birds ever flap its wings. Near Lima I watched several for nearly half an hour, without once taking off my... | |
 | Indians of South America - 1875 - 232 pages
...thus describes their motion : ' When the condors in a flock are TROPICAL NATURE. THE CONDOR, wheeling round and round any spot their flight is beautiful....when rising from the ground I do not recollect ever to have seen one of these birds flap his wings . . . They moved in large curves, sweeping in circles,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 574 pages
...proclaim throughout the district to the whole family of carrioufeeders, that their prey is at hand ? When the condors are wheeling in a flock round and...ground, I do not recollect ever having seen one of these bifde flap its wings. Near Lima, I watched several for nearly half an hour, without once taking off... | |
 | Science - 1894 - 1214 pages
...their flight is beautiful. Kxcept when rising from the ground. I do not recollect ever having seeu one of these birds flap its wings. Near Lima. I watched several for nearly half »u hour without once taking off my eyes. They moved in large curres sweeping in circles, descending... | |
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