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 12 THE CONDOR [ Vol. sembling the scraping of a tin pan with a spoon. The Great Blue Heron is often found in the trees with this colony, being pre- sent chiefly at night, but I do not ex- pect to see it nest. There is a smaller heronry of Black-crowns in the central part of Alameda near "Buck" Ward's house, over two miles distant, which was only started up this year, and the approximate number of thirty eggs taken was all the traffic would bear, if reports are correct! Capture of a Condor in I:1 Dorado Co. Cal. In 1534. In the autumn of 854, two men, Alonzo Winship, a former pony express rider on the plains, and Jesse Millikan, were acting as trackwalkers for the South Fork flume in E1 Dorado Co., Cal. Their cabin was situated between North and South Canyon, and one morning they noticed a large condor in a dead spruce tree, on the mountain side, below their cabin. Loading a rifle, one of the party started for the bird but it had disappeared. After breakfast Mr. Millikan started toward the head of the flume, whilst Mr. Win- ship went down the flume toward White Rock, eight nailes away. As he was crossing the aqueduct over North Canyon, he saw an enormous condor asleep at the base of a cliff that jutted about tw.enty feet above the flume. Surprised that the bird had not been awakened by his footsteps along the flume, he hesitated a moment, then decided to attempt to kill the bird. Having nothing but his shovel he threw it with all his force, striking the condor and breaking its wing. The condor, thus rudely disturbed, jumped from its perch, and running under the flume, started down the mountain to- ward the American River with Mr. Winship following closely after. The condor's broken wing impeded its pro- gress, and finding its pursuer was gain- ing upon it, it turned' savagely upon him and he was compelled to take refuge upon a granite boulder just out of its reach, realizing he had a danger- ous enemy. As the condor walked around and around the rock of refuge, eyeing him revengefully, Mr. Winship called to Mr. Millikan who was not yet out of hearing. The latter thinking his friend had flushed a covey of grouse, stopped at the cabin on his way and procured his rifle. When in sight of his friend on his granite perch he called: "What have you got 'Lonzo?" "Oh! I've got the great grand daddy of all birds," was the reply. The condor was in such a fury that it paid no attention to the new comer, but continued its circuit around the bould- er, eyeing its prisoner who called to Mr. Millikan, "Look out or he will go for you." Getting a good glimpse of the bird and amazed at its size, Mr. Millikan exclaimed, "We must not kill hitn; we must take him alive." After consider- able planning, Mr. Millikan secured a long, clean, strong, cedar pole and succeeded in dropping it across the back of their quarry, and both men threw themselves upon it. The trapped condor fought so savagely with its beak that Mr. Millikan stripped his coat off over his head and muffling the bird's head, they were finally able to secure it. Carrying the bird to the house, they took some flour sacks, cut- ting holes in them and passing the feet through; they then prepared splints and properly set and adjusted its broken wing, and over all, they placed bandages securely. They fastened a trace chain to one leg, securinx the other end to a post. The condor had plenty of room for exercise, but woe to any object that canhe within reach of its bill. It knew to a fraction of an inch just how far it could reach, and, within that limit nothing escaped minus the loss of a bill full of flesh, hair or clothes. The packers who supplied the cabin with meat, brought quantities from the slaughter house, and' it would devour five pounds of meat at 6ne 'meal. The owners of the slaughter house desired it,' and with much difficulty the bird was again secured, taken down the moun- tain and turned loose in the stockade of the corral, where it was boss of all, animate or inanimate. No dog ever tried conclusions with it twice. Finally