California Condor Eben McMillan 9 July 1964 Kangaroo Rats as food or else the 1080 Poison was Preferred over the Strychnine, or perhaps it could have been a combination of Strychnine Preferences for 1080 on Oats over Strychnine on Rolled barley, Or could it have been that the Rats that fed on the Strychnine Poisoned barley Could have made it into their holes and died? On a ridge 200 feet from the Roadway, and up which the Jeep had gone scattering the Poison at least two days ago we found a Cottontail Rabbit in a somewhat Paralyzed State evidently just expiring from having eaten Poisoned gain. This rabbit was still alive but unable to move other than to twist its body a bit and open its eyes when touched with my boot. This Comatose Condition of the rabbit led me to believe in had take Compound 1080 treated Oats. This fact would further add to evidence that either 1080 Oats, or a combination of both these is preferred as bait by Rats and Rabbits. In A field that lies North of Gavces Highway in the Rag Creek Drainage and about One mile farther West than the field formally entered we found 28 Kangaroo Rats dead along a plowed Fireguard that had been made within fifteen feet of the fence that follows the Northside of Gavces highway. The Jeep that had Scattered the Poison Barley - (no 1080 treated Oats had been thrown here As far as I could see) had followed this Fireguard. Considerable Rolled Painted barley was still on the ground here even though Not New as much as we found at the former field We inspected. Most of the death rats were Within ten feet of this Fireguard. A few were more than fifteen feet away and two were Were more than thirty feet away. Six dead rat, all in this plowed Fireguard strip -