california Condor Eben McMillan 15 January 1964 At 2:35 P.M. Two adult Condor came from the South on a level with the Percy Ranch home and entered Sulphur Canyon around the tree covered Point well below and to the Southeast of our camp. These two Condor circled about considerably along the south slope of lower Sulphur canyon finally making their way up-canyon until they passed over our camp where they circled several times before passing on out to the North around the rocky ridge to the Northeast and when last seen were going in the direction of the Holman Wall. One of these two Condor had a wide gap in the right wing about one- fourth of the way out from the body. I would judge that this was the one of the pair that passed over our camp last evening at Sunset that had the same gap in the cright wings. When last seen, these two Condor were together as they had been so this afternoon, as well as last evening - It was 2:45 P.M. when they disappeared from sight going Northeast. At 2:15 P.M., a brush fire sent up huge columns of smoke from an area about five miles North and West of Santa Paula. Everything is so dry from lack of rain, and the [illegible] winds so dry, that serious fires could result now anytime these high winds are blowing. I noticed that although a small smoke in the riverbed of the Santa Clara river was being blown swiftly along the valley floor across from the town of Fittmore, the smoke from this fire near Santa Paula was rising straight up to a height of about 2000 feet before being carried out to —