california condor Eban Mcmillan 14 February 1964 up at 6:45 A.m. it was clear-calm and cold. Ice had formed on water seeping from a leaking pipe. I drove up ridge between plieto and plietiato canyons. Red-tailed hawks were hunting over the open grassland. In left fork of plietieto canyon the carcass of a dead cow was lying near the roadway. Investigation showed that nothing had fed from this carcass even though it was still in an edible state, due to the cold weather that had kept putrification to a minimum. Continuing over a low ridge into the west fork of plietieto canyon I came upon the carcass of another cow with the remains of a dead calf lying about five feet behind it. From here I drove to a pass between plietieto and san Emigdio canyons that overlooks The Devils Kitchen area of San Emigdio Canyon and halted to cook my breakfast. Golden Eagle were seen from time to time and Red-tailed-hawks could be seen most of the time. At 9:55 A.m. Two adult Condor came gliding in, above the flat to the North of where I was located, on set wings, coming from what appeared to be the West flank of Brush mountain and the Blue Ridge area. Both were adult birds with no apparent defects in their plumage, crossing above the flat to my North, that is at the head of the west fork of plietito Canyon and in which a barbed-wire holding corral is located. These Condors then circled for several minutes above the low range of hills north of this flat before sailing off northeastward to an area near the headwaters of plietito Canyon where they again circled until 10:07 A.m.