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■( )i';.\IA CONDOR. 



30.00-36.00 (762-1)1441: tail 13.03-18.00 1381-437.21: hill 1.30 (3S.I); tarsus 

 4.50-5.00 ( I 14.3-127 ). 



Recognition Marks. — ("liaiit size; uiiini^takahle. 



Nesting. — Doi-s n(it lux't'd in \\'asliiiit;ti>n. .\'r.v/; dii k-dgc or in cranny of 

 inaccessible cliti', fdriiu-rly also in hollow tree or log. 

 f.ifi/s: I or 2. wliilish. unmarked, elongate ovate. Av. 

 size, 4.50 .\ 2.30 I I 14.3 ,\ 63.3 1. Scascu: ^Larch or 

 -Npril : one bro<Hl, 



General Range. — Xow chiefly confined to Cali- 

 fornia west lit the Sierra Xevadas and northern I.ower 

 California; fornierK- ranged north to southern llritish 

 Colunihia and east to Arizema and l/tah. 



Range in Washington. — I'ornierly coninion at 

 least in fall and winter on the Lower Columbia and 

 irregularly north (west of Cascades) to northern 

 lionndarv — no longer seen. 



Authorities. — | Lewis and Clark, Hist. E.\.( 1814) 

 Ed. liiddle: Cones, \'ol. II. p. 183 f.J Cathartes cali- 

 I'nniianiis Cuvier, Cassin, Rep. I ac. R. R. Surv. IX. 

 1S58. \). 5 (Cites j. K. Townsend "JNlouth of the Co- 

 lumbia River" ). T. CiIVvS. 



wnsend. the pioneer natiu'- 

 alisls of imdi\-ide<l "(Jre- 

 gmi." regarded this Con- 

 dor ;is a sutiiiiier resident 

 of the Territorw hut 

 iioteil particularly its 

 presence uiion the C<i- 

 hniihia Ri\er ihu'ing the 

 f.dl s.ahnon riui. Here, 

 in cmunion with Turkey 

 \ idlures. Crows, and 

 l\a\ens, tliey feasted for 

 a couple of iiiontlis on 

 the decayed fish, which 

 lined the banks of the 

 stream. Dr. Coojier saw^ 

 none of them, save 

 probabh once at \'an- 

 cotuer in January, 1854. 

 b)Ut it was still com- 

 mon report in his day 

 that the Ijirds fre(|uented 

 the scenes of the fall 



C.\I.II-OKXI.\ CO.NDOKS. 

 Takcyi in Califoniia. Photo by H. T. Bohlmati and \V 



/.. finlcy. 



