Field notes, v1400
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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