Cholame 670 california condor Eben mcMillan 16 may 1964 It was cold and foggy with a brisk west wind blowing at sunrise. The fog cleared about 7:00 A.M. but the west wind continued. I drove to cholame flats at 8:00 A.M. with the carcasses of three jack-rabbits that I shot early this morning. I scattered the bodies of the three rabbits near the cow that had died yesterday morning at the mouth of the first Canyon coming from the western slope of cholame valley foothills about one quarter mile south of wooden gate entering Gene Rumbo property from the east. I also opened the paunch of this cow carcass with my hatchet as well as cutting several deep gashes in the rear of each hind quarter. I then drove to the Canyon North of foot of Kerr Grade and glassed the area with my binoculars. Three Turkey vultures came, circling, from Maule Flats on cholame and circling as they went passed out to the south with no apparent interest in any of the many cattle carcasses that lay along the foothills and out on cholame flats, many of which had only died within the last day or so and would appear to interest a hungry Turkey vulture. I drove to east side of cholame valley [illegible] via the road that passes North of the alfalfa Camp and [illegible] proceeded Southeastward along foothills to the mouth of a small Canyon between Rock Corral and Red Rock Canyons where I noticed a young heifer calf -