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traveled extensively thru Arizona, says, "l regret that I cannot give you any in- 

 formation on the California condor." 



Mr. George F. Breninger wrote, "l know of no instance of the California 

 condor in Arizona." 



Mr. O. W. Howard who spent many years in the Huachuca and Chiricahua 

 Mountains of southern Arizona, both of which ranges extend into Mexico, has seen 

 no California condors or found any trace of them. 



This seems to settle fairly well the southern limits of the condor's range. We 

 find a few scattered in the San Jacinto Range, which is a small range about forty or 



ADULT CALIFORNIA CONDOR ON MOUNTAIN SIDE NEAR ITS NEST 



fifty miles from the coast extending thru Riverside and San Diego Counties. A 

 few have been noted in the lower end of the San Bernardino Range during recent 

 years. Where the San Gabriel Mountains cut thru lyos Angeles County, condors 

 are a little more numerous, and from this district thruout the mountainous regions 

 of IvOS Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San L,uis Obispo, and Monterey Counties, 

 the largest number of these birds are found, but they are nowhere common. 



There have been a few straggling records of the condor north of Monterey 

 County in California, but none of recent date, 



