California Condor Eben McMillan 4 November 1963 Photo Prints of the two cow carcasses that were shot on Frazier Mountain. Mr. Cory Ellingbo also told me that in 1962, during the deer hunting season, an angus yearling steer had been shot in the vicinity about one mile from the road on East Frazier Mountain and that one of this animals hind quarters had been skinned out and taken. Mr. Ellingbo also said that about two weeks before the close of deer season in 1962 a hunter had informed Jeff Calhoun, the Forest Service Lookout on Frazier Mountain that he had found a cow that had been shot about one-half mile off the road on East Frazier Mountain. Mr. Calhoun notified Cory Ellingbo, who investigating this incident found it to be a cow, Angus, belonging to his employers, that had been shot through the Stomach with a high powered rifle and killed. This cow would have given birth to a calf in about two weeks according to Mr. Ellingbo. No condor have ever come to feed on any cattle that have died and been watched by Mr. Ellingbo on Frazier Mountain. He did see, a few days prior to 1 October 1963 Two condor feeding on the carcass of a death spiked deer on the west slope of the ridge that runs west from Frazier Mountain Lookout, and just over the brow of this point. Mr. Ellingbo said he smelled the scent of this carcass, and thinking it to be a dead cow, rode in that direction only to come upon these two condor, one at the carcass, and one in a pine tree nearby. The one on the ground was at the carcass of the spike deer and only about 100 feet from him when he flushed it. Had he known of the whereabouts of these condor, and had possessed a gun while being of the frame of mind of most deer hunters, one or both of these condor would have fallen to his fire easily.