California condor survey field notes, v1477
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california condor Eben McMillan 29 may 1964 out southwestward much ahead of the wounded bird, circled for a few moments after getting out of danger, but circled down and joined the troubled bird as it passed from sight below the ridge to the south. Going back to the time of the shooting, no sooner had the shot been fired, than Dan Garcia yelled something to the effect that one of the two boys was shooting at the condor. He now evidently ran eastward along the fence that encloses the Horsethief Camp and was calling across the canyon in the direction from which the sound of the shot came from, to this effect. "Hey you kids, for christ sake stop shooting those birds. Don't you know it's against the law to shoot them. Do you want to get put in jail? Put that damn gun away and quit shooting those birds!" Mr. Garcia continued to berate the boys who were sitting on a pile of rocks, across a small draw from the Camp, about 150 yards from where we had been when the shooting incident occurred, before he came back to where I was intently now putting down Notes. As Dan Garcia approached me he stated to me that I should go over and arrest the two boys — one of whom evidently did the shooting. "The Damn fools," Dan said "will shoot at anything!" Garcia also said [illegible] After finishing taking quick notes of happenings up to this part of the incident, I took my notebook and hiked across the small draw to the east of Camp and out-