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Gymnogyps californianus
April 3, 1946 San Diego Calif.
(June 1945). The youngster was out of the cave well before Christmas Mrs. Benchley said. The condors pay no attention to the house cats, carcasses, red tailed hawks, other animals in the cage I observed. Visited Mr. Griffing Bancroft at the Cuyamaca Club (Union Bldg.) where he was playing cards and asked him about condors in Lower California. He said that in the last 20 years he had heard of but 3 - 1 at Navarro's Lagoon and min. shot at Navarro's Lagoon; 4 1 atop Sierra Juary (about 10 years ago). His wife had told him of never seeing any though she had done much work in Lower Calif. I asked him about condors in San Diego County - the last he had heard of, he said, was about 30 years ago on Santa Margarita Ranch seen by his son. He after affirmed that he was not trying to put me off but that the above were the only records he had of condors recently.
Reference from Ed Harrison's library: "A study of the Circulation Periods of Birds" by W.H.Bergtold. The Kendrick - Bellamy Co., Denver, Colorado, 1917.
of B.O.C. of Calif. Vulture.
p. 21, wt. 320 oz. avoudupois avg.. Authority "Bede - Bull. N. Y. Zool. Soc., Jan., 1909, p. 466".
p. 33, wt. of egg of Calif. Vulture (estimated W.H.B.)