. Guide leaflet. dors muchgreater size is pronounced, while its white under wing-coverts are con-spicuous as the bird soars overhead. The Condor lays its single egg in crevices in the rocks or in caveswithout pretense of nest, in February and March, and the researches ofFinley and Bohlman show that the young bird is between four and fivemonths old before it makes its initial flight. Studies for the present group were made in Piru (anon, someTwenty miles north of the village of Piru, and fifty miles southeast ofSanta Barbara, where for many years a pair of birds had nested in a cavewhich pierce
. Guide leaflet. dors muchgreater size is pronounced, while its white under wing-coverts are con-spicuous as the bird soars overhead. The Condor lays its single egg in crevices in the rocks or in caveswithout pretense of nest, in February and March, and the researches ofFinley and Bohlman show that the young bird is between four and fivemonths old before it makes its initial flight. Studies for the present group were made in Piru (anon, someTwenty miles north of the village of Piru, and fifty miles southeast ofSanta Barbara, where for many years a pair of birds had nested in a cavewhich pierced the vertical canon wall 150 feet above the water. Thevisitor is supposed to be in the Condors cave, from which he looks upthe canon. The cave was not occupied at the time the studies weremade, a passing hunter having wantonly shot one of the birds. Condors were also found by the Museum expedition up the AguaBlanca, a tributary of the Piru, on one occasion seven of the magnifi-cent birds being in sight at one 31. p - u w >: * z o < s OS s o -a 3O bfi o PQ 14. BRANDTS CORMORANT AT MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA VISITORS to Monterey, California, on the Southern Pacific Rail-road who have taken what is known as the Seventeen-MileDrive, may recall the rocky islet standing in the Pacific about aquarter of a mile off the coast near Cypress Point. This islet and the(ormorants which each year nest upon it are shown in his group. Brandts Cormorant also nests on other islets off our Pacific Coast,and it is a regular visitor to the rocks off the Cliff House at San Fran-cisco, where, however, it docs not nest. Both when flying and when resting upon the water the Cormorantsuggests a large duck. The resemblance, however, is superficial, theCormorant being related to the Pelicans, Gannets, Anhinga and all otherbirds which have the hind toe connected with the front toes by a web. The Cormorant is an expert diver and catches its food of fish bypursuing it under water, the hooked bill of the bird d
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