Granite Station California Condor Eben McMillan 16 October 1963 Information regarding Condor for he felt it best that the general public, who do all the shooting and dumping of trash along the roads, know nothing of their whereabouts. At the Clara Stockton Armstrong ranch I met Philip Armstrong, a man of about forty years old who manages the ranch for Mrs. Armstrong. He readily admitted finding a dead Condor and after relaying to me the information as to incidents leading to its discovery he dispatched Gary Snow, a young fellow, and native of the Granite Station-Woody area, who works for him to accompany me to the spot where the Condor remains were. Mr. Snow and I drove Eastward from the Armstrong house one mile to an Oak woodland [illegible] through which the road passed. Turning off this road to the right and driving up a swale, about two hundred yards, we came to a Self-feeder that is used to furnish concentrated feed to calves. A barbed wire fence having [illegible] enclosed this feeder that is so constructed that only small calves may enter the enclosure to obtain this feed. Fifty feet to the north of this feeder a medium sized live Oak (Quercus Chrysolepis) stood among scattered large boulders of granite. Among these boulders lay the remains of a Condor that had been thrown here by Snow and Philip Armstrong about about one week ago from a place where it was first seen, close by the north side of the Cattle feeder, that is mentioned before. The [illegible] spot where the Condor was first found by Philip Armstrong was pointed out to me by Gary Snow. This was on the outside of the fence that encloses the cattle feeder and within two feet of this fence. The ground still showed stains where the Condor body had lain before being removed to the area among the rocks under the Oak tree, this having been done to prevent the cattle from becoming frightened of the Condor—