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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Gymnogyps californianus
June 18, 1946 Santa Barbara, Calif
one of
cruelly stuffed later in 1902 - perhaps those
now at S.B. museum. In 1902 condors were rare
near Santa Barbara. Cattle were common, however,
& Olgily himself ran cattle near Montecito. He
showed me a newspaper article from "The Morning
Press", a coll column headed "Twenty-five
Years Ago. This date, 1902. From The Morning
Press". The column read in part "Three days from
Montecito made a lucky find while birdnut hunting
at the head of Cold Springs yesterday. They are
Willie Edwards, Willie Gallagher, and Arthur Olgily.
They had climbed to a bare cliff and looking
down the opposite side saw about twelve feet
below them on a ledge without any nest, a condor's
egg. The egg of the condor is very rare and is
valued by lapidemists at about $100. Then
I visited Store & wife. Store takes conservation
matters, mainly soil conservation, and also slow
motion pictures of bird flight. He is working
on a book on bird flight, noting that gliders
used the painted wing rather than the spread
tip such as shown by Pemberton's film of condors.
He received a grant from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia to make such a
study. Nash-Boulden told him where to go
and Lee Michel (sp) of Fillmore packed him