California Condor Eben McMillan 15 June 1964 hanging when a Deputy Sheriff named Shannacker, who was stationed at the Cuyama sub-station of the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office, got him to go and identify this bird as a Complaint had been registered at the Sheriff sub-station that someone had shot a Condor and Deputy Sheriff Shannacker wanted the bird identified before he made an investigation. Thus Mr. Martin was called on to identify this bird. Martin told me that the bird was hanging by its Neck from the top wire of this fence. The Carcass had hung there sometime when he was called to make the identification as when he saw it it was dried out and [illegible]. He thought it had been hanging at this spot at least 8 months when he saw it. Mr. Martin identified this bird as a Condor, for Deputy Sheriff Shannacker on the strength of its meat hook, or long center toe. We said he had always known this long toe as a meat hook. He also used the long primary feathers as an identification feature. Russian thistle bushes were piled against this fence in places. We would stop and kick away these bushes to inspect the ground under them. After hunting along this fence for about 200 yards we came upon the Carcass of the Condor. It lay about two feet north of the fence that encloses the field on the north side of the little used dirt road that runs east and west one mile south of the town of new Cuyama. It had been burned over at least once. I suppose farmers burning Russian thistle but collect along these fences. The feathers were burned down to stubs. All had been partially -