Not so with the condor.

His race can never become extinct so long as the Andes exist; and that is likely to be for a good long period, I fancy." "What sort of nests do they build ?" inquired Francois.
"They do not build nests," replied Lucien, "they choose a cavity in the rocks, or in the soil around them, where they lay two large white oval eggs, and hatch them just as other vultures do.

Strange to say, very little is known of their mode of life in their elevated haunts; but this is because the natives of the Sierras rarely venture up to the high regions where the condors dwell.

All they know of them is what they see, when these great birds descend upon the plateaux, or inhabited mountain-valleys, in search of food--which they do only in the mornings and evenings.

During mid-day the condor usually perches upon some high rock, and there goes to sleep.