California Condor Eben Mcmillan 14 may 1964 Clear, Calm and cool at sunrise - visited with Mateo Mendiburo who had been moved up into upper reaches of Cottonwood Canyon on east side of Tejon from his former camp on flats below timber line. He said he had lost no sheep since moving up high even though Coyotes could be heard calling at night. He told me that before he left the lower country he had seen what he took to be six Condor feeding on the carcass of a dead sheep about seven days ago. This would have been may 7, 1964. Mateo also stated that he beds his sheep at night on a ridge to the northeast of his camp about one-half mile and that nothing seems to bother them. Mateo now lives in a tent and cooks his meals in a dutch-oven over a wood fire. The grass is still lush and green at the higher elevations on Tejon Ranch and very ample in supply. Five bands of sheep are in this high country now. I saw two sheep carcasses today that had been dead for two and four days and still no scavengers had fed on them. One of the shepherds, Mateo Amundaraen, told me of seeing 35 or 40 Condor circling above the carcass of a lamb that died near his camp in White Oak Valley about ten days ago. The Condor were at this carcass eight days ago. I went to where he told me this carcass was and found it intact even though it was in an advanced state of deterioration. There was no evidence that this lamb carcass had been fed on by scavengers. With this lamb carcass and the two fresher carcasses mentioned above this would be a total of three sheep carcasses that have died within the last ten days none of which had been touched-