 Except when rising from the ground, I do not recollect ever having seen one of these birds flap its wings. Near Lima, I watched several for nearly half an hour, without once s Loudon's Magazine of Nat. Hist., vol. vii. taking off my eyes: they moved in...  Philosophical Magazine - Page 4281894Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...momentum to rise from the ground." On page 186 he says : " When the condors are wheeling in a flock round and round any spot, their flight is beautiful....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... | |
 | 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
...Darwin writes of the flying powers of this royal bird : — " When the condors are wheeling in a flock round and round any spot, their flight is beautiful....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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 574 pages
...whole family of carrioufeeders, that their prey is at hand ? When the condors are wheeling in a flock round and round any spot, their flight is beautiful....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... | |
 | American Engineer and Railroad Journal - Aeronautics - 1894 - 450 pages
...the condors in a flock arc wheeling round and round any coot, their flight is beautiful. Except wheu rising from the ground, I do not recollect ever having seen one of them: birds flap Uc wings. Near Lima I watcbed several for nearly half an hour without once taking... | |
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