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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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california condor Eben Mcmillan 8 November 1963
adults whose neck feathers develop into sort of bristles or
wire-like objects. The white coloration under the wings of a Condor is
a poor object to use in trying to establish any exact age group for
this does seem to vary a good deal from bird to bird of the same
age group. Of course we could not study the color development
on the neck of the two young birds in the Collection for the Ring-
Neck? of the living immature Condor seems to fade out
after death. As a Condor becomes older, its upper mandible
becomes more hooked and horn-like and the lower mandible
shortens and becomes blunt and ivory like. That is Ivory
both in color and in texture.
We left M.V.Z. at 4:30 p.m. and were home at 9:50 p.m.