california condor Eben McMillan 28 April 1964 stopping to chat with shepherd Bautista Aleman who is still camped east of Bakersfield Woodyroad a few miles East of Mr. Pazo, I found him thinking he had seen condors but after discussing his observations with him it was evident that he had been seeing hawks for he showed me the aged remains of a hawk's wing that he said was like the big birds he had seen circling about his camp. I would judge he had killed the hawk from which the first bit in any feathers of the right wing is all that now remains, for he has a .22 caliber rifle in his trailer house. I drove to Bakersfield and had my butane gas tank filled, after which I drove to Caliente and talked with Mr. Brown, who operates a store there. He told me that Mr. Atkinson, a relative newcomer to this area and who runs the post office in Caliente, had reported seeing great numbers of Condor in the area a few weeks ago. Otherwise he had heard of no other Condor observations by residents of the Caliente area. I went to Caliente post office and found, after considerable discussion with Mr. Atkinson regarding the Condor, he was supposed to have seen. There is now little doubt but that they were Turkey Buzzards. At the McCarthy Ranch, at Beale ville McCarthy had seen no condor lately, but told me that as a young fellow in this area forty years ago condors were seen commonly, particularly in the Cummings Valley area. Driving east east of Bealville on highway 46, I saw a flock of Buzzards wheeling over the valley bottom Near Keene. There were 50 plus Buzzards in this flock that are probably associated with