California Condor Eben McMillan 15 June 1964 farthest west he remembers of ever seeing condor over the village of Santa Ynez. He does not remember ever seeing a dead condor other than the one we were now investigating. He thinks condor are nearly as plentiful now as was the case when he was a boy about 1920 to 1930. About four years ago Deputy Sheriff Shannicleer (Mr. Martin did not know if this was the proper spelling of this name) who was then stationed at the New Guyama office of the Santa Barbara Sheriff's office came to Mr. Martin and asked that he accompany the deputy to a fence line one mile south of New Guyama where the deputy wanted Martin to identify the carcass of a bird that hung on this fence and had been brought to the deputy's attention by someone who had made a complaint that someone was shooting condors. Therefore, the deputy not knowing what condor looked like wanted Mr. Martin to accompany him to the scene and identify the bird. This Mr. Martin did by the process of recognizing what he described as the meat hook. Actually this meat hook that Martin referred to was the long middle toe on the foot of condor. Mr. Martin asked me if it were not this long toe, or meat hook, that condor used to open their [illegible] food animals. It is strange that Martin would know of the long toe of condor without ever having seen a dead one before. Perhaps he may have picked this up from others. At least it was effective, for he identified this bird properly. Another strange statement that Mr. Martin made was to the effect that he thought the carcass, when he identified it, belonged to a young condor as the feathers had not grown out on the head yet. This would be evidence of -