California Condor field notes, v1401
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Gymnogyps californianus June 28 1946 Paso Robles C.A.F. As to egg dates. #1 was taken March 1 [1907?] by Brown. Second #1 on March 6. An infertile one on April 19 (the birds were still on this one). Another on April 21. (probably One may 12 & "dead fresh" - Brown & Truesdale had given up for that year & took a last trip & got it; this was the Price-Tufts egg. Two hatched in the Doweran hole. One was found in a narrow slot & was broken when adult kicked it out. One was stolen - Fred went to town to get transportation & the egg was gone on his return. Fred visited Beartrap with his wife in 1918 & saw no condors. In 1929 he went again - no birds. One of Thayer's eggs was from about 20 miles from Mc Cheesey area - from Lopez Canyon area, said Fred. Truesdale said the condors used to prefer Navajo Canyon to the San Juan. He also saw them over La Panga, Paso Robles, & W. of Paso Robles in Tanne Creek area. The Truesdale twins shot one at "Shadows flats" once. It was about May 25, 1946, when Evan Brown told Fred he had seen 6 condors in the Chalons Flat area. At Shandon, Don McMillen showed me a letter to him from M.C.Z., Cambridge, Mass., in answer to his inquiry regarding condor eggs there. It said in part: "We have one egg which came to the Museum from the collection of the late