california condor Eben McMillan 26 september 1963 It was hot-calm, and clear as I arrived in Ducor, Tulane county California. A rancher from the springville area, who was getting gas at a station, told me he had lived in the springville area for 20 years and had Never seen a condor. He said he would like to see one of these birds. The man who runs a blacksmith shop in Ducor said he saw a condor that was sick in the Granite Station area about 1960. This condor was near where he was working and that after it stayed around for a day or so, Mona Calver came down and destroyed the condor. This blacksmith did not know what finally happened to this condor. Although he has been around the Ducor-Glenville area for many years this was the only condor he had ever seen. I stopped in Porterville to talk with Ross Welch, a former warden of Fish and Game, who retired several years ago, and who was the man who had notified the press, and I think university of California M.V.2. of the condor nest that was found in the Redwood tree on Tule Indian reservation in the mid-1940s. Mr. Welch, I found out, had moved from the Porterville area and now lives in the Salinas area of Monterey County, California. Joe, a welder in a machine shop in Strathmore, who knows and spends considerable time in the mountains east of Strathmore, told me of never seeing condor in that area. He said that on a trip to Los Angeles several years ago he saw condor in the area near Lebec on the Ridge Route. In Exeter, when getting gasoline, the station attendant discussed the matter of the case that had been recently processed through the Exeter Justice Court where a rancher who operates east of Exeter had been held to answer for cruelty to his livestock by overgrazing his cattle to the point of starving the cattle.