Dead Pit Austin Jet California Condor Eben Mcmillan 23 September 1963 A visit was paid to the Dead pit of Newhall Land and Farming Company Feed Lot at Castiac Junction at 11:40 am, after I had stopped at Broce Strathorn hunting preserve in the Simi Valley earlier without contacting Mr. Strathern. The day was warm and calm and clear. No new bodies had been added to the pit since I had visited the spot one week before. Not one large bird was in sight, nor came into sight during the thirty minutes spent here. Nor were there signs of large birds having been here since the recent rain that had dampened things up considerably, probably on September 23, 1963 / 19 September 1963 From Castiac to Arvin in the San Joaquin Valley by 2:00 pm. Without sighting a large bird of any species. I drove up Sheep Trail Grade East of Arvin and watched for one hour without seeing any large birds. At 3:30 pm. I visited Jack Jentzen, who was trimming horses feet at his camp one mile east of Arvin. He informed me he had seen a Condor over White Wolf Corrals on August 31, 1963 and another Condor circling over the Tejon Corrals north of the Sheep Trail Road on September 5-1963. Jack Jentzen gave me the name of a Mister George (Gib) McKinsey, another Tejon Ranch dude rancher, and who lives at the Old Tejon Ranch Headquarters and who is supposed to have seen 32 Condor at one time last year in the Tejon Ranch old headquarters area. Another dude rancher who was with Jack Jentzen, and whose name I failed to get, said he was with Gib McKinsey when they saw the