california Condor Eber McMullan 24 June 1964 At sunrise the sky was clear, it was calm, and warm. At 6:45 I left home, picked up Jan at 6:55 and we headed for Fillmore and Cow Springs via Santa Margarita-Santa Barbara and Fillmore. We arrived in Santa Barbara about 9:45 A.M., where we stopped at the Museum of Natural History to find Waldo Abbott and Cliff Smith had gone on a collecting trip to the Mt. Pinos region. We spent some time with Phil C. Orr, of the department of Paleontology, with whom we chatted regarding the remains of pre-historic Condor that has been uncovered on Santa Rosa Island by Mr. Orr and that has been described recently by Dr. Hildegard Howard. Mr. Orr re-told us stories of his recent trip with William Hansen of U.S. Forest Service. He said this outing is an annual affair that Mr. Hansen organizes and he (Mr. Orr) attended this year as a representative of the Museum of Natural History. Phil C. Orr presented us with copies of papers he had written on Arlington Springs Man, and, The Arlington Springs site, Santa Rosa Island, California. After a lively discussion of these matters that Mr. Orr is well versed in, we drove to Santa Barbara and had lunch. While at lunch we met Fred Eisslet of the Santa Barbara Audubon Society, who with other members of this Society were meeting to discuss recent activities on Sierra Madre Ridge and the projected road construction that is in the makings there. They, of course, wanted some idea or statement from us regarding condor activity over Big Pine Mountain and the Sierra Madre Ridge. Jan told them that we could not commit ourselves on information relative to the study. That we have-