page 115 -Continue- California Condor Eben McMillan 16 June 1946 Bert Snedden has been in the cattle business for many years in the Maricopa area and has had cattle in the Sisquoc area of Santa Barbara County at times and has seen and known Condor most of his life. Also I would class him as a very reliable person and one not give to over-rating anything he might say or describe. Therefore I am rating this observation of Bert Snedden as 90 percent, having a 95 percent chance of being right and 5 percent chance of being wrong. The 5 percent chance would be on the chance that Mr. Snedden does not kill Swainson's Hawk and that the "big bunch" of Condor that were above the 27 or 28 Condor that flew up from the dead heifer, were light-phased Swainson's Hawk and that Snedden counted them as Condor. I have observed Swainson's Hawk in large bunches, on the south end of Carrisa plains, which is not far from the area where Snedden observed these birds. Swainson Hawk, in spring, will gather in flocks and circle high in the air, and could look somewhat like Condor with the white under the wings, but I have never observed Swainson Hawk traveling through central California in numbers in the fall of the year. Snedden said Condor had been frequenting the Santiago Canyon area for several weeks prior to the observation mentioned above. He had loosing calves, they mostly being burn dead and making preferable Condor food. Ian said Bert Snedden gave identical accounts of observing the 60 Condor intalking with us today as he did when describing the account to him some several weeks ago,