. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The California Condor in the cliff, and is lost to view. One minute, two, three, elapses. It has happened! She's on, boys! Only two thousand feet above us; but if I were to stop to rehearse to you the arduous details of that climb, and of our sufferings, camera- laden, poked, prodded, buffeted, and gouged, as we made our way upward through an all but impenetrable thicket of buckthorn, you would chuck this volume into the fire-place and bolt for the
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The California Condor in the cliff, and is lost to view. One minute, two, three, elapses. It has happened! She's on, boys! Only two thousand feet above us; but if I were to stop to rehearse to you the arduous details of that climb, and of our sufferings, camera- laden, poked, prodded, buffeted, and gouged, as we made our way upward through an all but impenetrable thicket of buckthorn, you would chuck this volume into the fire-place and bolt for the door. It is yours to gather only the sweets. The actual foot of that rock-wall was sweet. We could have kissed it or bathed it with our tears. The half-cylinder- shaped wall was a promising place, stately and frowning not only, but full of rifts and caves, soft places in the sandstone scored out by the elements, or once occupied by a softer substance now decayed or leached out. We peered cautiously around the side where we had seen the Condor disappear, but we could not see all of the wall nearest us. Kelly, there- fore, crossed to the opposite base of the curve and looked intently while. "THE HEAD OF A CONDOR THRUST ANXIOUSLY FORTH" Photo by the Author I shouted. Again and again I shouted, but no bird appeared. Finally Kelly caught a flash of color at the mouth of an obscure hole far up the cliff-side. He called me over and I confirmed it—the head of a Condor thrust anxiously forth from the mouth of the hole, and then withdrawn—a hole so small that I should not have looked for a falcon in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928; Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932; Pierce, Wright M; Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953; Brooks, Al
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