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Gymnogyps californianus
February 13 1946 Hopper Canyon, Calif.
also near the entrance - anyone skirting the cliff
dose would be suspicious. A few old cardor
feathers outside too. No cardors seemed interested
in my presence though a pair of duck hawks
"chod" loudly & dove near me repeatedly. The cave
foces toward Pyramid 10 x Hopper mtn. & Russell
Cliffs, almost directly over (150' above top) the
dead Ps. in lower part of Carda Canyon. Entrance
large & irregular - shaped about , Max-
imum width about 12' & height 10'.
From entrance the cave slopes up at about
a 20° angle to a flat floor in the rear. This
flat - where egg was I believe - comes to
a point at the rear & the plan view appears
about this:
The floor was covered
with 2-4" of fine
dust, liberally strewn
with down, scoms & hazel(?) nuts, rock fragments,
& occasional bones. The ceiling of this flat
the part averaged about 2' - 20" about min-
umum. The rear 6x4' triangle seemed by far
the most used - the bones were found in the
trough all the way down to cave mouth. There
was no evidence of cardors having visited the
cave this year. Clement (dark) was up to