California Condor Eben McMILLIAN 1 August 1963 Ian McMILLAN came at 5:00 A.M., to my house, and we drove to Lebec, Kern County, where we were to meet Henry Melendy at 8:00 A.M. We met Dan Garcia, at Lebec, who Told us of seeing one adult Condor, near Lebec, on Saturday 27 July 1963 and what Dan Took to be a Young Condor, by the absence of white patches under the wings on 29 July 1963. Dan said the bird seen on Monday was sitting near where a dead Deer was later found. This bird had a mottled white under the wings. Dan Garcia, in answer to our question as to whether he was poisoning many Kangaroo Rats during the Poisoning Campaign he is now heading, on the El Tejon Ranch, said that on one occasion last week he had picked up 25 death Rats in the space of a mile travel. He thinks Kangaroo Rats are very thick in Population. Ian and I went to El Tejon Ranch headquarters, in Lebec, at 8:00 A.M. Where we met Henry Melendy who briefed us on his job on El Tejon Ranch and some of the problems he has become acquainted with since coming to El Tejon last August 1, 1962. Mr. Melendy spent his youth in San Benito County, California but never saw Condor. He, nevertheless, had heard of Condor and was of the opinion that a Mr. Bacon, who lived in the area near what is now the Point Reyes National Monument, had collected a Condor Egg that was supposed to have been the last egg of Condor collected in that area. Mr. Melendy gave us the names of people whom we can go to for information concerning this Condor Egg as well as anything pertaining to Condor in the San Benito County area. Henry Melendy explained to us the system by which El Tejon Ranch manages its hunting of Wild Game species. The slightly less than 300,000 (three hundred thousand) acres