Gymnogyps californicus February 15, 1946 Santa Barbara, Calif. and thought the summer closure was effective. He remembered me & called me Carl but wanted to do all the talking and did not offer anything concrete in the way of help. Nolder too was quite friendly & remembered me. Went to S.B. Nat. Hist. Museum and talked with EZ Rett, Waldo - , & Coggeshall. The museum got one carder specimen which was found 23 May 1945 7 miles NW of McKittrick, Kern Co., by Dan McMillan's brother in law. The bird was by a watering trough. Apparently it had been dead 2 or 3 weeks. The SB Museum has the skeleton (complete) & all feathers. The left titlia & filula have holes in them as if some disease had eaten away the bones - hole up to 1/2 +/-" at joint. On June 1, 1945, Rett, Larry Stevens, & Dan (