California Condor Eben McMullan 13 July 1963 more quickly and not bloat and remain to smell the area for some time as do sheep when left with the pelts on. Mr. Smith said that the public complain is animal carcasses are left where the smell will reach habitation. Bob Smith also told me by seeing great numbers of Condor feeding on dead sheep near the M & R ship company alfalfa fields at Cantil, in Kern County. He said he had thought of trapping one of the Condor to get a good look at one. This was in the winter of 1961. Sheep were dying in heavy numbers about this location in the winter of 1961. Bloat from alfalfa was thought to be the cause. Lorenzo Echeverre a Basque who owns a partnership in two of the sheep flocks now in the Tehachapi Valley later told me that he was at Cantil in winter 1961 and he thought the large carrion birds Mr. Smith referred to were Buzzards. I gave Lorenzo Echeverre a photograph of a Condor in flight and several self-addressed envelopes with the understanding that he will report any sightings by Condor that made by either he or his shepherds in the Tehachapi area this Fall. He will check any sightings against the photograph for positive identification. I drove to Cummings valley in late afternoon. The Mormon race horse man, Rex Elsworth, only recently purchased the 15000 acre ranch in the south end of the Cummings Valley for 40 dollars per acre. He has people running the ranch now who are new to the country. Two and Three year old Brahman cross Steers are now on this range. No one in the place know about Condor. A Mr. Roe, who is caretaker for the Ansolabehere People, who run sheep, and come into their place in Cummings Valley in the fall and winter, to lamb, does not know Condor—