HUNTING BIRDS WITH A CAiMKRA 



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wild birds. A second 

 proclamation was is- 

 sued August ]8, 1908, 

 establishing Alalheur 

 Lake Reservation. 



These two reserva- 

 tions are among the 

 most important ever 

 established, because of 

 their wide marsh areas 

 and the numbers of 

 birds protected. Pre- 

 vious to this, October 

 14, 1907, President 

 Roosevelt had created 

 Three Arch Rocks 

 Reservation, which 

 was the first land set 

 aside on the Pacific 

 Coast solely for the 

 protection of wild 

 birds. 



HUNTING Tlir; CAI,I- 

 FOKXIA COXDOR 



From a scientific 

 standpoint, our photo- 

 graphic life history of 

 the California Condor 

 has been the rarest and 

 most important work 

 we have done. This 

 was accomplished in 

 1906. After a long 

 search, we found the 

 home of the Condor 

 in one of the mountain 

 ranges of southern 

 California. 



The advance of 

 civilization has all but 

 led to the extinction of the species. If 

 one were to start on a hunt for the Cali- 

 fornia Condor, he might search for 3ears, 

 as we did, without success. In the whole 

 world's collections, there are not a half 

 dozen of these birds alive. In the various 

 museums of the world one can find almost 

 twice as many eggs of the Great Auk, a 

 bird nr)w extinct, as of this Condor. A 

 few left in the wild state live almost en- 

 tirely in the Coast mountains of southern 

 California and a part of Lower California. 



The report that the California Condor 

 is rapidly following the Great Auk, the 

 Labrador Duck, and other species, anrl 

 that it will soon become extinct, is not 



A friendl_v Desert 

 if we are kind to 

 persecuted so long. 



"a dird in the ttaxd" 



Sparrow at Tucson, Arizona. Birds are trustful 

 them. They are wild because they have been 



without foundation. Its range is more 

 restricted than (hat of anv other bird of 

 prey. In the early part of the last cen- 

 tury it was rejjorted fairly common as 

 far north as the Columbia River region. 

 The main cause for the decrease in 

 Condor numbers seems to be that when 

 stock-raising became common in Cali- 

 fornia, years ago, in order to secure pas- 

 turage during the dry months, the rangers 

 were compelled to drive their herds back 

 into the more remote mountainous parts. 

 Here they invaded the retreats of pan- 

 thers, grizzlies, and coyotes. These 

 preyed upon calves and sheep. The 

 quickest and best device for getting rid 



