2985 Gymnogyps californianus April 3, 1976 San Diego (200), Calif. colored & had the male comb. The head was feathered from the start, Bendley said. The Calif. Condor which the zoo once had was very playful - a regular pet. It died from eating a strip from a rubber hose the keeper left in the cage. Mrs. Bendley said that in 1911 she & her husband saw several condors between Pine & Fillmore. Met Ron Stott & GE Kirkpat tick, the museum photographers (about 25 years old I judged). Stott said he saw 2 condors in Baldy Canyon near Claremont in 1939, the same year that 2 were reported from the Idyllwild country near Hemet. They said that the birds condors puffed out their breasts during display but no did not puff the chokes or necks. The noise of a movie camera cau ed them to stop displaying. The condors were quite vicious & attacked the photographers. Kirkpatrick said that when he was outside of the cage with 79 schoolchildren the f had flown at him & struck the side of the cage. Stott was bitten in the leg by one. On the display the birds waddled from side to side, walked back & forth, & occasionally turned around, they said. The second egg hatched on to about 13 June (found 16