California Condor Eben McMillan 18 may 1964 attracts them where-by they are apt to come and circle above your position. This more so than would be the case were one on a horse or in an automobile. Human beings, on foot, in the hills are not a common sight. At 12:40 p.m., from my position on the Kerr Grade road about three-eights of a mile up from the bottom, I saw a condor and a Turkey vulture circling on the ridge above the headwaters of the Canyon north of where the P.G. & E. pipeline goes up westward from the valley north of the foot of Kerr Grade. After a few circles the condor came my way and was followed by a turkey vulture that flew much faster and therefore crossed back and forth behind the condor in order to keep behind the pace of the condor, which seemed to be the design of this vulture. As both these birds approached me I could see that the condor was an immature bird in the spot-in-the-wing stage. This condor did not come within range whereby I could definitely make out if it had a feather missing 3/8 of the way out from the body, of the right wing, as did the spot-in-the-wing bird which I saw in this same general area last Saturday May 16th. As both the vulture and the condor approached within one-quarter mile of my position, they sweared northeast and circled for several minutes over the mouth of the Canyon that is north of said P.G. & E. Pipe line. At 12:45 the condor, and also the Turkey vulture that was still keeping company with it, were both circling over the Gene Rambo home at a rather high elevation. After —