California Condor field notes, v1401
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Gymnogyps californianus June 18, 1946 Santa Barbara, Calif paid little attention. After some time later he found it really was a condor. Pett also gave me Arthur Olgily of Montecito collected & egg in Cold Spring Canyon about 50 years ago; & that he had talked with John Stiver (who had photod feeding condors) about condors. Stiver was now at De Anza Motor Inn near Santa Barbara. Pett also said the old man in Montecito from whom Larry Stevens got a condor egg was named Griffin. Then I visited Arthur Olgily, member of the real estate firm of Olgily & Gilbert in Santa Barbara (29 E. Canon Perdido). He was friendly and seemed a reliable honest man. He said the egg was taken at the falls of Cold Spring Canyon (ocean side of Santa Ynez range) in 1903. The egg was on a boulder about 10 or 12 feet from cliff top. It was well incubated. Many offers were received for the egg, & it was finally purchased by a man from Arroyo Grande. One trip was later made to the vicinity of Big Pine Mtn. to look for an egg - but none was found. Egg collecting was a hobby of Olgily at that time. He said that about 15 years ago he saw 2 near Montecito (Baker Mtn.?) but that those were the only ones he could recall having seen on the ocean side since the egg was taken. One of the cole Cold Springs birds was shot and