California Condor Eben McMillan 18 February 1964 Hopper Mountain. I hiked hurriedly southward, through the growth of chaparral scrub that grows on the northeast face of Hopper mountain, to where I could see the Soda-Sulphur ridge on which the Rabbit Carcasses had been left. At 12:22, emerging on the south side of this brush patch, I saw two adult Condor and one immature Golden Eagle on the ground in the general area where I had left the two rabbits at the lower location where the road passes from Soda to Sulphur creeks. Both Condor were standing about fifteen feet from where the eagle was. The Condor appeared to be feeding on one of the rabbit carcasses. The imm. eagle appeared to be watching the Condor. The immature eagle left the ridge where it was sitting at 12:24 pm. Due to poor lighting conditions I could not follow the flight of this eagle. At 12:27 pm, after I had hiked some distance along the face of Hopper mountain, mostly in sight of the Condors, one Condor flew from where the two Condor had been on the ground. The other Condor continued to pull at something until 12:30 pm. When it too raised into the air. Watching this last Condor closely with the binoculars I noticed something fall from its grasp; either from its talons or beak, after the bird had gained about two hundred feet of altitude. Marking where this object, that the Condor had dropped, fell, I proceeded on down the ridge and found that the object the last Condor had dropped was the skin and legs of the cottontail rabbit that I had left, some one hundred feet from where I now found this morning. No meat was left on this skin. Only the legs and fur covered skin.