California Condor Eben McMillan 4 October 1963 Ranger Morse advised us to come to his office, at which place we would be given a permit to enter, and a key, for the locked gates, on the roadways of any areas within his jurisdiction whenever we deemed it necessary to enter any of these areas, to do Condor research work. Mr. Bert Shedden who lives in Maricopa, Kern County California and operates a livestock operation in, and to the west of, Bitter and Santiago Creeks, in southwestern Kern County, said he had not been seeing many Condor this fall. He thought this might be due to his cows not being affected as seriously, this fall, with foothill abortion. He thought it too late for large concentrations of Condor, such as he has seen in past years, to come to his area to feed. Mr. Shedden did say he saw seven Condor on Monday or Tuesday that were trying to get to, and feed on, a calf that had been born the Saturday before, but were prevented from doing so by a cow that stood guard over the carcass of this calf, and would chase any Condor away that came near. In describing the incident Mr. Shedden said that the cow, evidently hungry from the confinement of guarding the calf, would commence to graze away from the calf carcass. When this was done, one of the seven Condor would walk in and try to get at the calf carcass only to be chased away by the cow, that upon seeing the Condor approach the calf carcass, would return and pursue the Condor a short distance from the calf carcass. When the cow