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Gymnogyps californianus
May 13, 1946
Mt. Poso, Cal.f.
Mtn. is prominent to the SSE & is apparently an import-
ant point on flight path from Breckenridge - Bear Mtn area.
By 4 p.m. saw no more though I searched the horizon
every few minutes with binocs. Wind about 25 mile
per hr. - stronger than usual - from NW. By 7:30 no
cardors appeared & vultures were rare; sky 3/10 cirrus;
wind missing (about 30 m.p.h.). Perhaps the cardors took
advantage of the wind to go to an especially distant feeding
ground, or perhaps they returned to roost by a "shot out",
dry-passing the rolling hills as their updrafts were un-
necessary.
May 17, 1946
Berkeley, Cal.f.
Mr. Richardson of Porterville said that about
20 yrs. ago he saw two cardors overhead on
Tule Indian Reservation. He also said that he
had had talked with John F.F. Latta of Bakers-
ersfield about cardors, & that Latta might have
historical information of value. Rollo Beck
said he had once hunted cardors.
May 20, 1946
Stanley Jewett told me that Bob Beck (sp.? ) , of
Fish & Wildlife, now in Boise (?), told him that once
he found a cardor buried in the sand, the wings
chopped off. Mrs. Lindale said that Lloyd Tavis
had lived much on San Emigdio ranch at Stok-
dale. Yesterday I overheard Laidlaw Williams