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 Man, 1908 LIFE HISTORY OF THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR. PART III 63 the mother saw her gray nestling, she flew across to the rocks above us. Then she ran along the steep slope, but had to help herself with her wings to keep her feet, and hopped up on a small oak limb just above the nest and only twenty feet distant. The old male followed and both sat watching us from the tree. It was all anxiety with them, and we were so anxious to get their pictures that we could not shoot fast enough. In a short time, all our plates were gone and we had to sit down and watch, and wish for more. This gave us the best chances to study both the old birds. Their bills were of dark horn color and the red skin of the head extended down covering the bill about half way. The feet were of similar color, but on each knee was a patch of red. There was a brighter patch of red on the breast of each bird, which could occasion- ally be seen when they were preening and when they spread their breast feathers. Both had light-colored wing-bars and the primaries were well worn. The skin on the throat hung loose and the lower mandible fitted in close under the upper, giving the bird a peculiar expression. The chin was orange and below this on the neck was a strip of greenish-yellow merging into brighter orange on the sides and back LEAVING THE OLD STUB of the neck. The top and front of the head were bright red, but between the eyes was a small patch of black feathers, and these extended down in front of the eye till they faded into the orange red of the neck. The pupil of the eye was black, but the iris was deep red and conspicuous. The top of the head was wrinkled as if with age. The ruff, or long shiny black feathers about the neck, was often ruffled up, giving the bird a savage appearance. Behind the ruff on the back the feathers were edged with dark brown. When we made the next trip into the mountains, to our surprise a third condor appeared above the nest in the afternoon. He was a ragged looking bird, with two or three feathers out of his wings and one missing from his tail. We first noticed the new bird as we saw the parents watching him intently when he was high in the sky. He began circling nearer and nearer till he finally lit on the side of the mountain a few hundred yard up the canyon. The parents watched him closely for some time without a move, till the new arrival, thinking his prosenee was not objectionable, flew down and lit nearer the nest. The male set out after him and the third condor flew back up the canyon. There was some objection to the new