California Condor Eben McMillan 12 December 1963 attached to this signboard. I photographed this automobile and signs as well as two mailboxes that were just across the roadway from where he car sat. They were actually honeycombed with bullet- holes in the tin. I drove to the sheep camp in Cottonwood Canyon and was told by the young herder, who I had chatted with in September and October, when he was camped in the Tehachapi Valley, to the west of the town of Tehachapi, that he had seen muchas Pajaro Grande (big birds) on several occasions within the last two weeks. He said he never saw Condor at Tehachapi, but that he has seen plenty here in Cottonwood Canyon. He said one Condor came and fed on a dead sheep that lay within 50 yards of his trailer-house in which he was working when the bird came—mostly he sees them just circling around above the sheep. He saw four at one time the day before yesterday. I told this shepherd that I would be back in a week or so and that I wanted him to keep records in writing for me when the Condors came again. He said he would do this for me. I then drove to the camp of another shepherd who had seen no Condor. This shepherd was an elderly Basque who had been in this country 43 years. He said he had herded sheep for Alejandro Calamini in the Carrisa plains in years past. He said he has seen Condor for many years when herding sheep—he had seen none here in Cottonwood Canyon of late but that he saw lots of Condor