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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