P-199 -Continued- Tehachapi California Condor Eben McMillan 24 July 1963 Arriving in Tehachapi valley at 1:00 p.m. I checked with the shepherds there, but found they had seen no Condor. Went to home of Jim Davis and upon questioning him found that he could not remember ever having seen Condor south of the town of Tehachapi with Sam Cuddabeck. He did see the Condor, in the Pine forest, on the ground, on top of Bear Mountain about 18 years ago. He was felling timber at the time and was walking up a trail, to his work, the three Condor flew from the forest floor, not far where he was, and did some fancy maneuvering as they flew out among the thinly scattered Pine trees. These were the only Condor Jim Davis ever saw, and he has lived in the Tehachapi Valley for fifty years, with the exception of a lone Condor seen about 17 years ago on the Cuddabeck Ranch that was then near where Monolith Cement plant now stands in Tehachapi valley. On the advice of Jim Davis I went to home of Vic Phillips, another old timer of the Tehachapi valley and who was supposed to be aware of Condors. Mr. Phillips has been in the Tehachapi Valley 56 years and during much of this time was associated with the livestock industry, working as a foreman and Cowboy. He is a brother-in-law of Sam Cuddabeck. Vic Phillips worked on the Jameson Ranch for years. He saw Condor regularly in Whitepool Creek where the Jameson Ranch was situated. About 1928 Phillips saw the carcass of a Condor, and also the carcass of an Eagle, stretched on the side of a barn in Tehachapi valley that two kids had shot. When Phillips told these kids (boys) that it was against the law to shoot Condor, he said they sure were scared. About 1929 Mr. Phillips saw 28 Condor feeding on a dead hiker on Jameson Ranch in Whitepool Creek. About the same year a Bull died on Jameson Ranch and Condor came