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Gymnogyps californianus
June 22, 1946 Shandon, Calif.
13, 1946, with Milton Ray at Cameron Rocks, he saw 3 condors at 1:15 p.m. Elb Mc Millan said he saw 2 + 3 over his place earlier this year (April) & heard of 6 being seen feeding on a bob cat near Turkey Flats about the same time. She May be saw 2 condors, apparently flushed from the cliff, at the "jief", 4 about 500 turkey muttoner. Elb said the dead condor they had heard of (in February) was about 5 miles N. of the Navacopa road. Jennings Vorveter (sp.?) told them of this one, saying a "shepherd" had killed it. Dan said Wilcox, taxidermist of Arroyo Grande, shot some condor specimens near Mc Chesney Mtn.. We gave Bethel brothers $10 for one they caught in a trap. Dan said the foreman of La Bonya ranch (Jardine) told him he saw 18 last March - the most he had ever seen.
June 23, 1946 Mc Chesney Mtny. Calif.
Van Mc Millan said 3 of the 5 eggs taken by Truesdale & Claude Brown were taken from the 1 hole described by Dawson. Brown took the first one, around another was taken around the corner to W. of the main hole. In 1906 (±), Truesdale was working near Seminole & saw his first condor, heading W. He searched in the rocks in the Syncline Ridge area, then later further W. & finally at Mc Chesney Mtn.. Of the 5 known nesting sites at