California Condor Eben Mcmillan 15 June 1964 Ed. Morse in the fine art of estimating the wing span of Condor in flight, a man who had been standing by us waiting for a weather forecast, from Ranger Morse's Secretary, interrupted our conversation by saying that he knew Condor well. That he had seen them in years past in the Wells Half Acre area east of Figueroa mountain. He said Condor used to come close to him in that area. Interested, I immediately asked him where this Wells Half Acre area was. He informed me it was south and west of the Hurricane deck. The conversation then turned to how easy it would be to shoot these Condor that come so close such as the one photographed with the left wingspread. At this the man who had formally interrupted us chimed in with the statement that he saw a Condor hanging on a fence here in the Cuyama Valley about four years ago. He said he thought part of that Condor would still be there. It would only take about 10 or 12 minutes to go out and look he said. I immediately had him in Gan's pickup and we were heading south on a dirt road in quest of these Condor remains that were four years old. We drove east on the highway about 1/4 mile from the U.S. Forest Service Station, then turned south one mile, then west 1/4 mile where a two-barbed wire fence enclosed a 1/2 section field. Mr. [illegible] Martin, having found out the name of my guide during our ride this far, explained to me that it was right on this fence, that goes east and west one mile south of New Cuyama, that the Condor Carcass was