California Condor: Eben McMillan 2 October 1963 Keep on the lookout for Condor and pass on to us any information regarding the birds that he comes by. I drove to the dam (earthfill) at mouth of Tunis Canyon and met Mr. Lawrence Nord, the hunter checker, who is camped there in his house trailer. He told me of seeing four Condor near the top of the range at the headwaters of Tejon Canyon two years ago. He said these Condor were feeding on the remains of a small fawn deer. When he first came upon them the four Condor feeding he thought they were buzzards but soon noticed how big they were so paid more particular attention to them then recognizing them to be Condor. Mr. Nord told me of seeing several dead heifers a few days ago south across the Tejon Basin in the area of the old Ostrich farm. I drove to this location and found one heifer lying dead under one of the large Electric Power Towers that cross the flats into the Pastoria Canyon, at Tejon, and another pair of dead heifers about one-half mile west of the first one. It was hard to detect what these heifers died from, but I would suspect shortage of water. The carcasses of these heifers were bloated to a maximum. No sign could be found where scavengers of any sort had fed on these carcasses. Flies were thick everywhere. They appeared to be common house flies. I drove to the Grove of trees that marks where the old Ostrich farm used to be located. This is near the foot of the mountain and to the left of where Highway 99 enters Grapevine Canyon, or East, about two miles, no Condor about. Saw more than fifteen Sparrow Hawks flying, or Perched in the Eucalyptus, and Tamarisk, trees here.