California Condor Eben McMillan 15 July 1963 I packed up the pickup this morning and at 8:00 a.m. headed for Tehachapi Valley in Kern County, via Bakersfield. visited with Riley Patterson in the Government Building in Bakersfield. He told me that, to the best of his knowledge, no sheep were summering in the high country of the Sierra Nevada range south of Madera County. He thought most of the sheep are now on summer range in Mono County, where he [illegible] reported, word was coming in that coyotes, bobcats and lions were killing great numbers of sheep. Mr. Patterson also said there were some sheep running on the Homer Hansen, Jr. holdings in Jawbone Canyon on the East slope of the Pinto Mountains; otherwise he thought most all the sheep in Kern County were in the Tehachapi Valley and the Antelope Valley of Southeast Kern and North Los Angeles Counties. Riley Patterson told me of seeing two condor a few miles east of Onyx in the Kern River drainage a week or so hence. We had written Ian of this observation that he said took place just above the highway and not too much distance between he and the two condor that when first seen were just off to his left and low enough that he saw them out the window of his automobile. Both birds sailed about the area for about 20 minutes, allowing for a good view of their characteristics. Mr. Patterson said no noteworthy feature were visible about either bird that would give an opportunity to recognize them on sight were they seen again in the near future. Both condor were adults and they were last seen heading northwest. Mr. Patterson also told me of seeing condor in the Cuyama Valley nearly every time he goes there. Last year, he said, the Selby Brothers had two flocks of sheep pasturing on Caliente Mountain, in Southeast SLO County. He thought they could be there again this year. Several years ago when he was living in Parkfield, Monterey-