Gymnogyps californianus June 27, 1946 Paso Robles, Cali. With Dan McMillan I went to visit Fred Trueblood. Of the McChesney pair, Fred said that 5 separate holes were used as nests that he knew of. None ever laid a second egg when first taken, & less George Harris, now dead, who had taken 13 eggs (Fred said), never knew of a second being laid. Besides Harris, Shields took an egg in Matsey Co., at about 3000' elevation; Trueblood thought. Taylor got one in the San Carpajo area; Trueblood recalled with some difficulty. A man named Mathews was a partner of George Harris in the collecting. Trueblood said 5 condors was the most he had ever seen at once. Wilcox collected several in the Beartrap area. Trueblood also heard of condors in the head of Stone Canyon & searched that area, but found none; he thought Wilcox col- lected some there. Trueblood believed the condors would They nested three next the next year if egg was taken. About twice times in 7 years, to believe in his experience. The adults sometimes perched very close to the nest when an egg was being taken, T. said. A condor egg is described in the S.F. Herald of May 6, 1859, & this article was cited by John Thayer in one letter to Trueblood. T. showed me some old letters. One from Thayer dated December 3, 1909, said Thayer already had 7 eggs. One of December 13, 1909, said that Thayer had taken