california cowboy Eben McMillan 8 August 1963 It was cloudy, sultry, and trying to shower as I drove to Bakersfield by 8:30 A.M. Met Dan Garcia who recorded having seen Two Condor on August 2 and 4 Condor on August 2, 1963 in Canyon to east of highway 99 about one mile south of Fort Tejon, Kern county, Calif. I failed to get the time of day these birds were seen. The 4 Condor on the 2nd were heading due south and the two Condor on the 4th were circling above the Cattle Corrals of Tejon Ranch. Dan Garcia said he had finished the squirrel poisoning in the Tejon Ranch area and was this morning, going to see Ben Beasly who is in charge of Squirrel Poison Operations for the County of Kern Agricultural Commissioners Office, and find out if there are plans for more poisoning. Dan Garcia thought this would conclude squirrel poisoning for this year. I visited Opal Grimes at the U.S. Forest Service office in Bakersfield leaving with her a copy of the Condor Monograph which she had previously stated wishing to study. Opal Grimes said no new Observations of Condor had come into the Office from the Lookouts and Forest Service personal since I was last in. She did mention that Mrs. Morrison from the Breckenridge Lookout had turned in seeing Condor some two weeks ago but upon advice from Helen King of the Oak Flat Lookout, thought Mrs. Morrison's observations to lack knowledgable recognition of the birds, and be therefore unworthy of publication as factual material. I will satisfy myself on this point when I next visit the Morrisons on Breckenridge mountain. Leaving Bakersfield at 10:30 A.M. I drove to mouth of Caliente Creek where Martin Ansolebehere said neither he nor his Shepherds had observed Condor. He again mentioned honor having seen Condor about the level area at the mouth of Caliente Creek. Mr. Ansolebehere said they had not even seen buzzards which is unusual, he thought. In former