california condor Eben Mcmillan 23 april 1964 met Don Hoots who had just been transferred here from the Mt. Lassen area of Northern California and who is stationed here now at Chuchupate Station as assistant District Ranger. Mr. Hoots has never seen condor nor had he heard of the present Condor Survey. Bob Roberts, fire control officer of Chuchupate Station, was there and had a duplicate of the Condor records from Thorne Point ran off for my files. Bob Roberts told of seeing two condor in the Lockwood Valley about three weeks ago. Roberts gave no reason why he had not recorded and filed this observation in the file in which District Ranger Gary Plisco had told me he would have all condor sightings in his district filed. Ranger Plisco is now away on annual leave. Glen Alzola, one of the personnel at Chuchupate Ranger station and who was in the office with Hoots and Roberts, told me of seeing a condor attack a young deer some years ago in the area East of Gorman. The Condor hit the fawn and knocked it down on two occasions. After knocking the fawn down for the second time the Condor alighted near the bush in which the fawn had fell. The Condor walked about the bush looking in as if hunting for the fawn. As this went on the fawn ran out of the bush and up, and out of sight, over the hill. The Condor tried to follow the fawn but in that it had to drop downhill to set momentum it never got up the hill in time to follow where the fawn had gone. I enter this observation only as an example of -