California condor survey field notes, v1476
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California Condor Eben McMILLAN 27 September 1963 both Mr. and Mrs. Shaubach to be very interested in wildlife as well as being good observers. They are both people probably in their sixty's, and have [illegible] on their ranch here for about Twenty Years. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Shaubach knew of Condor ever having been in their country and were quite sure they had never observed birds in their area that would be as large as condor. Mrs. Jameson answered my questions as did all other residents of this area, in a negative manner. That is, they were not aware of Condor. Mrs. Jameson, who lives in her nice Ranch home, that is located on the east side of 41 highway and about one-quarter mile south of the 41 Highway-Madera to Friant Road N10.145. Crossroads is the daughter of the late Mr. O'Neil, founder of the Town of @Nails, and one of the early Settlers and large landowners of this area. She had never heard her parents speak of Condor, nor had she ever talked to anyone in the area who had seen Condor. At a roadside Tavern, on the North side of Friant Dam, I met a Mr. McDougald, who is the father of D.N. McDougald, to whom I had Talked to earlier in the day. The elder McDougald, although being a sizeable Stockman and owner of good acreage in the area to the North of the Friant Dam impoundment, thought it unlikely that Condor ever frequented his range much in late years, for he professed to be quite observing and had never seen large birds that would answer the description of a Condor. At the Indian mission, on the Table Mountain Indian Reservation, that is about five miles East of Friant, on the Auberry Road, I talked with John Grigsby who was born and raised on the reservation and has spent a good part of his 60 plus years hunting and prowling—