California Condor field notes, v1401
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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