california Condor Eban McMillan 9 October 1963 Several Red Tailed Hawks were seen over the cotton and alfalfa fields West of Wasco, California about 9:00 A.M. Harvesting of Cotton Caterpillar was in progress and great Numbers of a Wooly Caterpillar were making their Way about on the ground going in every direction. This may have Concentrated these hawks but I saw none feeding on the Caterpillars Caterpillars. The morning was mild, Calm, and for the first time in more than three months, the air was somewhat clear on the floor of the lower San Joaquin Valley in the Wasco-Shafter area. Jose Salaburu, a 20 year old Basque Shepherd, who has been in the States only one year, tended a flock of Ewes, belonging to Joe Mendiburu, South of the road as it enters the Canyon East of Famosa, California, where the Oil fields are situated and which road leads to Woody and Granite Station. Shepherd Salaburu said that only a few lambs were being born and that it would be another two weeks before lambing begins in full force. He had seen no Coyotes, no Foxes, no Eagles, nor other Predators attacking the Sheep that he keeps for this fall. He will be on the lookout for Condor and record their appearance for me. Mrs. Dorothy Albitre, who ranches to the West of Woody, California about two miles, in answer to my inquiries concerning her finding of the dead Condor which I got from Mrs. Margaret Brown, of Granite Station, showed little interest in the fact that it was a Condor. Carcass she had found. In fact she stated that when coming upon the Carcass of the Condor as she was Poisoning Squirrels for Carl West, her attention was only drawn to the object by her horse becoming frightened of it and not wanting to pass by where it lay. According to her statement to—