P-201 -Continued- Tahachapi California Condor Eben McMillan 24 July 1963 Came from behind, swooping over Phillips head, and picked up the rabbit in its talons carrying it about 100 feet into the air when another Condor rushed in from behind and as it swept under the first Condor, this one let go oft rabbit while the second Condor caught it in its feet and turn, after gripping the Rabbit briefly let go the rabbit was immediately caught up again by the first bird. This exchange went on several times when the Jackrabbit dropped to the ground. Phillips rode over and picked rabbit up, observed no wounds but noted that the creature was dead. He then fed the Jackrabbit to his dog that gulped it down in a few minutes. The two Condor continued to circle the area for some time searching for the Rabbit. Phillips said he told this to several people who rebuffed him for thinking a Condor would kill a rabbit when they are supposed to be strictly scavenger birds. Vic Phillips said he didn't care what they thought. He knows Condor from Eagles and that there were two of them. He said he could tell them by the replica of a wings, under their wing, outlined in white. I don't think there is any doubt but that Vic Phillips has seen Condor at times. But this must have been a young Golden Eagle and possibly an adult instructing the young in predatory acts. The white on the young Eagle probably threw Phillips off on his identification. This observation casts a shadow on Phillips claim to have seen so many Condors in the late 1920s at 5:30 p.m., five Buzzards were seen flying slowly again in the stiff west wind blowing in Tahachapi Valley. They did much flapping of their wings and were making slow progress westward. I drove to the Antelope Valley in Southeast Kern County and spent the night camped in a Grove of Joshua Trees that were the fringe of a large land development where several thousand of Joshua Trees had been burned and buried in the process.