California Condor Eben McMillan 28 May 1964 Commanche Point Road about fifty yards. A Mr. Kecking, an employee of the Rex Ellsworth Ranch, who had been helping the squirrel poisoning crew was at the squirrel poisoning camp when I arrived, he having wrenched his back two or three days before by lifting on a sack of poisoned grain, and therefore becoming unable to assist in the application of the poisoned grain. Mr. Kecking told me the general whereabouts of the area in which Dan Garcia and the crew of three other men were working. He also informed me that they would be back at the camp for lunch between one and two o'clock in the afternoon. I drove my car to Horsethief Flat and leaving it under the shade of an Oak tree hiked south and west into the area where poisoned grain had been scattered for squirrels. I found the body of one dead squirrel and one live Rattlesnake, the latter was sunning itself at the mouth of a former squirrel droppings. At 12:30 p.m. I saw the squirrel poisoning crew working up a ridge and then continuing on in the direction of the squirrel poisoners camp. I hiked up a ridge and intercepted Dan Garcia and a Mr. Walter Leake, as they were towards camp, the other two employees having gone on to camp before I reached the trail on which they were traveling. Dan Garcia and I chatted briefly after which he and Mr. Leake rode on towards camp with the understanding that I would hike to my car and drive to their camp where I would join them at lunch. This I did, arriving at the Camp at 1:58 p.m.