California Condor A typical spring morning; warm, damp, calm and Clear. The rain of march 27th, which gave an inch of precipitation to this area did not produce so well in the bitterwater valley, nor in the Blackwells corner, Lost Hills area. Good rains fell east of the drainage slough, to the east of Lost Hills. Having heard of an airplane being forced down, with loss of life to its two occupants, when it collided with a large bird in the Granite Station area to the North and East of Bakersfield, and hearing, on the radio, that the bird was thought to be a Buzzard, I stopped and phoned the Sheriff in Bakersfield, as I passed by Famoso, on my way to Sheep Pastures East of Famosa. After several phone calls that gave no positive identification of this bird, I drove to the Airport in Bakersfield, where the Director of Civil Aeronautics Administration, Mr. Clyde Boughton, who had been conducting the investigation into the above mentioned airplane accident, sent me to the Hornkohl Laboratory, in Bakersfield, to look at and identify the bird in question, that to me, had been referred to as a Goose, a Buzzard, and a Cormorant. It turned out to be a Common Loon in full adult plumage, weighing 7.9 pounds and being in remarkably good condition after meeting up with and downing, an airplane. The lower mandible was broken off about 3/4 of the length in towards base and a deep gash had opened the left side and breast. The left Testes was found even though much damage was evident in the stomach cavity. This testis was not measured, it appeared to be more than 3/8 of an inch long. over