California Condor Eben McNillan 13 June 1964 Johnson, of Cuyama Valley, had stopped by this afternoon for gas at this station and said he was on his way, with his lion hound, up to Sierra Madre Ridge. The gentleman who attended us at this station also informed us that a riding club had been recently formed in the Cuyama Valley, the man that owns Stutz Station, near Kentucopa, being the new president of this recently formed group whose membership numbers nearly 90. As we were at this service station two young fellows, armed with bows and arrows walked from behind the service station across the highway, crawled through the barbed-wire fence that enclosed the private land on the north or opposite side of the highway, and proceeded to hunt rabbits. I saw them discharge arrows on two occasions at something in the tall brush that is scattered about the flat in which they hunted. The station attendant waiting on us mentioned how proficient these boys were becoming with these bows and arrows, they being able to kill lots of rabbits with their weapons. Arriving at the Reyes Ranch in Santa Barbara Canyon about 10:15 A.M. we stopped by to chat with Mrs. Gertrude Reyes in order to let her know who it was that was passing through the locked gate in front of her ranch home, and to inquire if she had seen any Condor of late. She said no, that they had not seen Condor for some time, more than a -