California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Conbor Eben Mcmillan 21 may 1964 Must have misstated the amount of grain that Freeland Farmsworth was going to bring in to have mixed with Strychnine Poison. That it was 1000 pounds instead of 5000 pounds as a had in my notes. Also, Mr. Easley said that the 25 and 75 percent of Poison mix that he puts out for birds 25 percent for Horned Larks and 75 percent for Linnets is 25 percent of bird seed in the mixture that has been treated with a 25 percent dosage of Strychnine while the Linnets, that hull the seeds before eating it Need a poison dosage of 75 percent so that the poison is strong enough to kill them from even holding the hulls of the grain in their beaks before spitting them out. I visited with a new shepherd whom I had not met before who was tending a flock about twelve miles east of Famosa. & This Shepherd, Carlos Chamarrro, was a Spaniard who had been in this Country five years, having returned to Spain after his first three years of Service here in America and then applied and had been given employment again after a one year stay in Spain. He knew little of Condor but stated he had seen fine big birds feeding on a dead sheep Near a water tank, near the roadway, about one mile up the Canyon from where his Camp is located. Mr. Chamarrro wondered if I wanted to Shoot Condor if I Should find them. He said he had no gun. I advised him that were he to be found shooting a Condor that Officers of the law would take him to jail where he would -