California condor survey field notes, v1476
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California Condor Ebon McMullan 27 September 1963 months, as well as working on ranches about the Raymond area, told me that the only time he ever heard of Condors was when reading an article in some publication stating that Condor had been seen in the Greenhorn District of Kern County. He thought he read this article about two, or three years ago. Mr. Cecil is quite sure he has never seen a Condor. Clifford Calhoun who ranches to the East of Raymond, whom I met, with his son, at the Post Office in Raymond, and whose aged mother was also at this location, said he never saw, nor heard of anyone else in the Raymond area, who had ever seen Condors. Mr. Calhoun said he has been in the Raymond area for over fifty years and his mother came there as a young girl. Although she said that the Country People always discuss unusual sightings of any wildlife, she had never heard of Condor being seen in that area. Clifford Calhoun professed to having done much hunting as a Young Man in the hills around Raymond but had never observed any bird he thought would answer the description of a Condor. Clifford Calhoun's son is a man of about 21 or 22 years old. He never heard of Condors. The name was new to him. Guy Spinks and his wife stopped at the Raymond Store. They were just returning from gathering cattle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains The Spinks are young people who live in Madera, but have -