Page 43 - Continued - California Condor Eben McMillan 20 March 1963 until it disappeared from sight in the distance. I then drove down the river where I met the French Shepherd who told me of seeing one big bird turning and turning in the air above him one hour before. This Shepherd took me to a place in the river bottom, about 1/2 mile north of Cedar Spring, and showed me the Carcas of two 2 grown lambs that he said Coyotes had killed last night. It looked as though Coyotes had done the killing, the throat of one was slashed and a pool of blu ead caked and covered the sand-the other showed no signs of being cut at the throat, but its stomach had been eaten out. This was not done last night so the blood was dry and caked and the meat about the stomach open cavity of the other was dry and hard-so these lambs must have been killed two or three nights ago. As we were looking at these sheep I saw the Condor with the three feathers missing from the end of the left wing circling about 1/2 mile to the west. As we watched this bird it disappeared in a westerly direction a took the Shepherd to his Trailer, where he pointed to brush covered hill behind it, where he said a Coyote Ca and chased his sheep yesterday evening. This Coyote c and ran the sheep about even though he yelled and threw rocks at it. This Coyote appeared to have no fear of this herder or else it was overcome wi the thrill of the Chase. I drove west to the Nanaio and searched the area about the Nanaio, but saw no more sign of Condor.