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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 -