Gymnogyps californianus July 27, 1946 Mr. Gorman, Calif. such close approach. Occasionally he had seen cormorants perch on rocks to the SE (?) of a lookout, but some distance away (a fair hike). This man had pictures & description, so I believe his identification accurate. The guard at Tejon Guard Station said he occasionally saw cormorants high overhead in that vicinity, & once saw 3 or 4 at the same time circling. He too had seen of my cormorant pictures, but I have some doubt about his identification. In Bakersfield I again visited F.F. Latta. Recently he had asked Mary Pohet, a Wuckcheumne Indian woman, about 80 years old, about cormorants. This tribe is on the Tule (sp.? ) River & Mary lives near Woodlake. She said they had no cormorant dance or song but did have a story. Henry Lawrence of Visalia, a Yokutumne Indian, told him a blind Indian at Tule River used to put a cormorant feather in his hair every morning. He said he used to see a cormorant dance in which they wore 1 feather in their hair (a mid-water dance). The cormorant is called "Wee-itch" by the Indians. An old timer named Wahn (sp.?) thought told Latta the cormorants disappeared around 1850 & he thought this was caused by the putting out of poison bait for coyotes. Latta thought that John Peabody Harrington of Santa Ana might have gotten some cormorant dope from the Indians; David Bleyers of Santa Barbara (museum) knows his address.