page 536 was skipped California Condor Eben McMillan 10 February 1964 As these Condor dashed about, getting into the air, after being surprised by Mr. Ralls sudden approach they would fill the sky. He thought there would have been well over a hundred of them. He said that on several occasions he had tried to ride up suddenly on horseback and rope one of these Condor, but they always were able to get elevation quick enough to get out of his way. There is little doubt but that these were Condor that Mr. Ralls saw in 1942. He established the date, or year, by remembering that the Second World War had just started when he went to work on this ranch in the Tehachapi Valley, and that the owner of the ranch got him deferred for a year after which he had to go to the service via the draft. Thus he places the date of this Condor observation sometime in 1942 as he went into service in 1943. As to the number of Condor, it is quite possible that the flock of 40 plus birds that Perry Sprague was reported to have seen on the Tejon Ranch (Craford Condor Report) about this same time could have been feeding in the Tehachapi Valley in 1942 when Mr. Ralls saw them. I have seen 18 Condor hurriedly leaving a steer carcass and being very hard to count. I have no doubt that 42 or so Condor, all getting into the air together, could easily give the impression of being more than 100 birds; and of course, Turkey vultures could have been mixed up in the melee. I stopped at the office of Fish and Game warden, Clanton, in Bakersfield. His only knowledge of Condor was that of the warden from the Mt. Pinos area who had sent his report to Dave Selleck, in Fresno, and reached us this way already: A Mr. Jack Root, Calif. Fish and Game warden stationed—