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Gymnogyps californianus
April 15, 1946 Encinitas, Calif.
perched within a few feet. There were some
casesteps of condor adult heads at the white-
ace bk. nest - there showed the bulging cheeks
of one well; a constant character separating
the pair at this nest? It is believed by Har-
rison that Bemberton's pictures have been shown
so much that people are tired of condor
movies, & Ed believes he will give his to some
eventually
museum for permanent record. Back to
Scott: re Lower Calif. He believed Melling Ranch &
Santa Rosa Meadows the localities of most reported
occurrences. He believed it peculiar that condors
were seen only in the high country there while
they fed on the low plains in California.
April 17, 1946 San Diego, Calif.
With Ed Harrison I visited Mrs. Griffing Ben-
croft who has done considerable collecting in
Lower California and has a good memory. One
one occasion they were with Tony Green of the
San Diego museum and had a permit to coll-
ect a condor. They were camped at La Encantada
about 50 miles beyond Melling Ranch in about
June of 1931. They killed a horse which had
a broken foot for bait & watched it. There
carters
was a cow, at the other end of the meadow.
This place was at about 6000' elevation. On