California Condor Eben Mccmillan 16 August 1963 IN Paso Robles, California today at 9:50 A.M. I met Steve Matthes, a former Lion Trapper and state employee who now carries on a lion and Jaguar hunting business in Mexico. I was interested in getting from him the particulars of an incident, about twenty years ago, when, according to Riley Patterson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Predatory animal man from the Bakersfield Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Steve Matthes accompanied him when they found the Carcass of a deal Condor on or near Rocky Butte, in the San Simeon area of Western San Luis Obispo, County California. In answer to my question that had he ever seen or heard of a dead Condor in the Rocky Butte area he stated that one time he did see a Condor that was thought to be sick for he and Riley Patterson had found on the trunk of a dead Pine in which a Condor sat Perched Without the Condor leaving or even flapping its wings. Due to the Condors refusal to leave its perch these two men thought the bird sick: were I a Condor and knew Matthes as I now do, I would have been flying from that tree long before he got within shooting distance. Steve Matthes told me that he has seen up to 13 Condors on Castle Mountain, in southern Monterey County in past years, and that on one occasion he watched a Condor feed on a deer Carcass on the flat out in front of the Floyd Taylor Ranch that is located on the south side of Castle Mountain at its base. Steve Matthes only Saw the One Condor on Rocky Butte. It was the Only Condor he ever saw West of the Salinas River drainage in San Luis Obispo and Monterey Counties.