California Condor Eben McMillan 21 September 1963 black birds", they answered. "Did you ever see those Condor here and how many are there supposed to be here?" To this inquiry they said the Condor were supposed to be rare and that they had seen them before in the Dough Flat area as well as over the Piuu Lake. The boys said they were from Fillmore, but did not think they knew Jack Cairns. They professed an interest to get on hunting thus terminating our meeting. I came to a U.S. Government Chevrolet pickup that was parked at the roadside near where signs of a tractor and machinery having gone down a steep decline into the bottom of a canyon below the road. A letter in the seat of the pickup was addressed to Jack Parkinson. I followed the trail that had been bulldozed down into the canyon bottom from the road, for about one hundred yards, where I could hear sounds of activity and see dust far below. After waiting to see if anyone should come up out of the deep canyon and not finding this the true, I drove on in to Fillmore, meeting a car on the way, that seemed in a great hurry and showed no heed of my desire to stop and talk. This culminated my observations in the Sespe Corridor up to 1:45 P.M.