California Condor: Eben McMillan 23 april 1964 About 3:00 A.M. I was awakened by light rain falling on my face. The sky was overcast and the wind had changed to the N.W. At daybreak few birds were heard calling. The grass, of which there was a good ground cover on Tejon Flats, was all dry. The cloud cover was breaking away in the West. A brisk, cool breeze blew from that direction. At sunrise a flock of 12 or 15 Purple Martins flew above me heading North with a few Swallows accompanying them. Some Meadowlarks sang and a few Horned Larks flew overhead calling and at times singing. I drove to Tejon Oil Field of Standard Oil Company and chatted with Joe Brown who oversees these wells for that company. Mr. Brown said he had seen no more Condor in the area since the last ones he had reported to me the early part of the winter. Mr. Brown said he had been wondering what had become of the Condor. I talked to Ray Like who with another person was feeding some Bulls at the Corrals below old Headquarters of Tejon Ranch. He had not seen nor heard of any Condor being in the area for some time. Mr. Like told me I could catch up to the Ranch Cowboys who were leaving the barn about five minutes before and would be going out towards the South Past the Gum Trees. I drove up past the ranch and overtook the Cowboys as they rode up the ridge to the south of the Gum Trees. Gib McKenzie had seen no Condor lately nor had any of the other 8 Cowboys. They said that few cattle had been dying since the -