. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. THE CALIFORNIA VULTURE VCSS ^N^ Spreading a wing expanse of from nine to eleven feet, with a body of the weight of a swan upborne between these Roc-like pinions, living all its life in the most inaccessible portion of the westernmost ranges of the New World, there is every reason that the eyes of ornithologists the world over should turn with marked interest to the life and habits of the California Condor. Fifty years and less ago these giant birds were comparatively plentiful among the hills and vales of the lower slopes of the Pacific coa
. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. THE CALIFORNIA VULTURE VCSS ^N^ Spreading a wing expanse of from nine to eleven feet, with a body of the weight of a swan upborne between these Roc-like pinions, living all its life in the most inaccessible portion of the westernmost ranges of the New World, there is every reason that the eyes of ornithologists the world over should turn with marked interest to the life and habits of the California Condor. Fifty years and less ago these giant birds were comparatively plentiful among the hills and vales of the lower slopes of the Pacific coast where roamed countless heids of cattle, and where the vaqueros realized the value ot the vultures as scavengers and so seldom molested then as they did the eagles and other pred- atory birds, at that time even more plentiful than the condors. But half 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 on the stub of a dead pine back among the highest hills or a distant view of one more bold than the rest as he feeds on some bit of carrion sur- rounded by a band of turkey vultures that seem dwarfed beside this monster of the upper 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 Worcester, Mass. : C. K. Reed
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