California Condor Eben Mcmillan 9 February 1964 The Shepherd caring for a flock of Duke Martin sheep that are being Pastured to the NE of the Kern County Road at the Mouth of Bitterwater Canyon. This herder told me that a few more days would see all the available forage gone in this area and where the sheep would be moved would be a problem in that alfalfa fields were now being irrigated and would not stand sheep pasturing on them and hay, selling at twenty five dollars per ton thus making hay too expensive to feed the sheep. This herder had seen no condor. In fact he had never seen a condor although he had worked on the Curissa Plains herding sheep one Summer, and had worked at the La Panza Ranch for a time. He knew what condor were, but had never seen them having found about condor by word of mouth. Two dead sheep were to be seen from his mobile camp house. A young Basque Shepherd, who had been in the United States two years, was herding a large flock of ewes and lambs to the west of Highway 33 about two miles north of Taft, Kern County, told me at Two Sheep carcasses in the brush near his camp that had died within the last four days and nothing had fed on them yet. This shepherd knew condor, having seen them last September in the Cuyama Valley where he had herded sheep on stubble lands of a Mr. Calhoun. The Cuyama is the only place this man had seen condor. His patron, (employer) Is Leonard Bedart. The green forage in this area, among the atypical shrubs, is much better than is the case to the north of this location. Two Golden Eagle were seen circling southeast of San Emigdio Ranch Headquarters about one mile near the skyline at 1:15 P.M. Walter Shaylor, foreman at San Emigdio Ranch, had seen no —