. American ornithology, for home and school . THE CALIFORNIAVULTURE. Spreading a wing expanse of from nine to eleven feet, with a bodyof the weight of a swan upborne between these Roc-like pinions, livingall its life in the most inaccessible portion of the westernmost rangesof the New World, there is every reason that the eyes of ornithologiststhe world over should turn with marked interest to the life and habitsof the California Condor. Fifty years and less ago these giant birdswere comparatively plentiful among the hills and vales of the lowerslopes of the Pacific coast where roamed countles
. American ornithology, for home and school . THE CALIFORNIAVULTURE. Spreading a wing expanse of from nine to eleven feet, with a bodyof the weight of a swan upborne between these Roc-like pinions, livingall its life in the most inaccessible portion of the westernmost rangesof the New World, there is every reason that the eyes of ornithologiststhe world over should turn with marked interest to the life and habitsof the California Condor. Fifty years and less ago these giant birdswere comparatively plentiful among the hills and vales of the lowerslopes of the Pacific coast where roamed countless heids of cattle, andwhere the vaqueros realized the value of the vultures as scavengersand so seldom molested then as they did the eagles and other pred-atory birds, at that time even more plentiful than the condors. Buthalf a century agone is not today, and the most one can hope to have,even after a long residence among the higher mountains of the west-land is an occasional glimpse of one of these birds as he perches onthe stub of a dead pine back among the hig
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