California Condor Eben McMillan 25 JUNE 1964 Jan and I were up and on the trail by sunrise. The morning was warm, calm, and clear. We took the foottrail, Gr. Cowtrail, from Bucksport to the saddle south of the Bucksport Heliport and then proceeded to follow the Road- trail that goes up towards Whiteacre Peak and Oat Ridge. No tracks remained in this Road-trail from the Jeep in which Jack Gains climbed this ridge last February when he was shepherding the Purina Mills Photographer about this area. We saw no large birds of prey on the hike up. Great numbers of grasshoppers were hatching, and hopping about, on the Oat spur to the northwest, and below the top of Whiteacre Peak. We pushed on along the Whiteacre Peak trail that leaves the Oat spur in the saddle below the peak and arrived near site of Nest No. 5 at 10:10 A.M. After some casting about we finally came upon the Nest Cave. The situation inside the Nest Cave appeared to strongly support evidence that Condor had nested here within the last five years and probably raised a young. Much excement lined the walls of the Nest site to a good height and much of this material still carried an odor. The sand in the Nest was cupped and contained units surface many fragments of egg shell that were clear and stainless. Adult Condor feathers were picked up at the Nest and in the Nest Cave. Bone fragments, some as large as a hens egg were picked up in the Nest and about the cave bottom. These were all stained and appeared to be-