Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, unless it was of such clumsy dimensions that the bird would not gonear it. If the trap is staked to the ground it would brake the chain. Poisonis no better for the birds digestion is marvellous. If it eats poison meat itwill eject it at once before it can do any harm. The gun is almost uselesstoo for the vitality of this vulture is enormous. An explorer in SouthAmerica records that he shot a condor fourteen times before he succeededin killing it. Among the sheep herders cartridges are scarce and expensivewhile on the other hand condors are large and numerous. A great writer on natural history tells a story of a man he met whiletravelling in Chili who showed him some of the outer pinion feathers, nearlytwo feet long, which he had taken from a condors wing. This man killed amule in a secluded part of a valley where he thought condors would be likelyto come, and sure enough in a day or two a flock appeared. They gorgedthemselves on the carcase to their utmost extent. One huge fellow in
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CUM)C)K^ ^I 1 1 l^*- ^ ^^ J^IA. CONDORS particular had eaten so much that it could not fly. The man awaited afavorable moment and then rushed at the condor and seized it by the neck.He tried his best to twist the neck in his hands but found that it was animpossible task. The other condors grew very excited and fluttered aroundthe fighting pair but did not actually take a hand in the struggle. Soon theman found that it would be far easier to hold on to the condor than let it go.He had to keep its head out of the way, for he knew that one stroke from itscurved beak would knock his brains out; at the same time the condor wastrying its best to claw its enemy off. The mans legs were slowly being tornto pieces in the struggle. At last he let go one hand long enough to reachhis revolver and placing the barrel close against the condors head he killedit in a couple of shots. It was many weeks before he recovered from thewounds of the fight. It is doubtful if many of us would take all that risk

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