p.174 —Continued— Cholame California Condor Eben Mcmillan 9 July 1963 The Bear-trap rocks being 31 miles due south and 7 miles west of the Water Tank at the foot of Kerr- grade from where this Condor launched its flex-glider. At no time during the great distance I followed this bird, did it break the glide it first started on, nor did it appear to loose any altitude. A gentle East wind was blowing. The afternoon was quite warm. Ed. Gurrells, one of the Cowboys of the Cholame Ranch that stopped to chat with me as I was observing the two Condor this morning, said he had seen no Condor on the Cholame flats, "since those were here two years ago." At the time he spoke these words one Condor was circling well within eyesight out to our southwards. The Condor last seen today and the one that went into the long flex-glide in the direction of the Bear-trap Rocks was in good plumage with the exception of having one full secondar feather that left a full gap in the left wing about 2/3 of the way out from the body; see diagram below. [Diagram: Condor with label "Left wing"] Of the two other Condor seen today, one was in good plumage—the other was a very ragged looking bird. See below diagram [Diagram: Two Condors labeled "Good plumage" and "Bagged bird" with labels "Right wing" and "Left wing"]