California Condor Eben McMillan 19 June 1964 the wintering population of Sandhill Cranes that come to the Carrisa plains in October and remain until Spring, to leave the area. He thinks the reason for the early de parture of the Cranes in February this year was a result of lack of Rainfall. I stopped by and talked with the young Shepherd at Lake Ranch. He has seen no Condor since last summer when he was with the old, fat, Shepherd when the three Condor fed on a sheep carcass within 100 yards of their Trailer house when it was parked Near the Cow Camp on Piñole Ranch. It would go without saying that Condor have undoubtedly been over his trailer on numerous occasions since then, but unless Condor come down to feed and are within close range of most humans they are never noticed; excepting of course during deer hunting season when most Nimrods are searching both ground and sky for something to shoot at. This young Shepherd promised to keep a sharp eye for Condor and let me know should he see one. It was interesting to see the reaction of the young Basque Shepherd referred to above when I told him of seeing a Condor shot some weeks ago by a young fellow who was poisoning squirrels for a Ranch east of Alvin some weeks ago. This young Shepherd immediately asked me if it was a Spaniard that had shot the Condor. When he found this was not the case he appeared to be much relieved. This evening I called James Sinton who is a -