California Condor Eben McMillan 22 may 1964 West wind-Cool-clear with a few high cirrus clouds in the Northwest. Had breakfast with Hugh and Charlotte Smith after which I rode with Hugh Smith to the east side of his Ranch that dips into Poso creek. His Property runs up the southeast flank of Poso creek to the ridge-top where it borders the property of John Rofer where I had seen Condor passing last fall. The Hugh Smith property is about four miles west of Oak Flat Lookout and includes Pine mountain on the Northeast slope of Poso creek. This area between the John Rofer area and Pine mountain has been recognized as a flight pass of Condor in the past. This would be on the same flight as the Rancheria and Rattlesnake Grade areas that lay about two miles to the Southeast and where so many Condor observations have been made in former years, I would like to make observations in this area for at least one day before we end this study to see if Condor could be baited into the Smith Property as a means of seeing from whence they come. I saw an adult Golden Eagle sitting among the branches atop a Buckeye tree that was about Twelve feet high and well leafed out. The Eagle flapped its wings and thrashed about in the top of this tree as if it were trying to flush some creature from within or underneath. Soon the Eagle flew out, raised up fast and disappeared over ridge to the west. Hugh Smith said he has heard of Golden Eagles catching Fawn deer but that he has never seen it happen himself even though he has spent his entire lifetime in the hills of Kern and Tulare Counties. He is now 73 years old. I talked with Mrs. Trent Stockton who lives east of Bakersfield Woody road near where the Famosa Road intersects. She although having-