California condor Eban McMillan 27 January 1964 on condor he immediately phoned Mrs. Brown to inform her that we would be interested in seeing her specimen and taking it for scientific analysis. Mrs. Brown, during this conversation, informed Mr. Easley that I had already come to her place, on the advice of Mr. Sam Etter of Parkfield, and taken the condor carcass with me. Mr. Ben Easley also informed me today of a Mr. Claud Fennell, who is now Agricultural Commissioner of Imperial County, California, had reported to him dead condor? Several years ago of having seen a dead condor on the Tejon Ranch that had been shot with a rifle about the size of a 22 caliber from the size of the hole it made. I will write Mr. Fennell for information on this sighting immediately. Mr. Easley stated that Mr. Fennell had been on the Tejon Ranch making a survey of potential grasshopper invasions. This, he thought, would have probably been in late April or May of 1950 or 1951, or possibly 1952. Mr. Easley thought the Brown condor could have been poisoned by feeding on young squirrels that Mr. Easley claims are in the habit of stuffing their pouches with poison grains before they die of the poison. He thinks condor might find these young squirrels lying dead and swallow them whole, thereby getting the grains that were in the dead squirrels pouches—Easley thinks 1080 poison would kill any warm blooded animal that got a sizable amount of this poison into its system.