Tehachapi - continued - California Condor Ebon McMillan 16 July 1963 food on a dead cow. As Mr. Powell rode up on his horse the Condor all ran to a small hill nearby from where they launched themselves into the air. But they did not leave the area. Instead they circled around a bit and they lit on a hillside nearby and sat waiting for, Mr. Powell thought, him to leave the area when they would return to the cow carcass and continue feeding. Mr. Cuddeback thought Mr. Powell's observation was of buzzards. Even though he is not the keen observer that Mr. Cuddeback appears to be, he could have seen the 50 Condor he so vividly described to me. I walked with Sam Cuddeback to a nearby Cafe that is operated by Jim Davis, the man who shared the Condor observation with Sam. This was done to corroborate the statements of Mr. Cuddeback concerning the Condor sightings. Mr. Jim Davis was not in. His daughter advised that he had gone to Tehachapi Mt. Park to camp for a few days for his health. I drove to the Tehachapi Mountain Park, but could find no trace of Jim Davis. The Holiday Soaring School, in Tehachapi, has student fliers and instructors in the air above the Tehachapi Valley quite frequently during weekdays, in gliders. Those gliders are towed by prop plane to a good height, then cut loose on their own and allowed to remain aloft as long as they choose to do so. Tony Gillkes, one of the students told me they had not seen Condor in the area while soaring although at times buzzards, or hawks, will get in the same thermal updraft they are flying in and they and the birds soar around together. Most of the personnel of this school know Condor from having studied photographs of these birds in school. I watched several of the glider flights and -