California Condor Eber McMullan 16 January 1964 at 8:15 A.m. the first large bird showing in sulphur canyon was Two Raven that came from below and worked their way to the top of Hopper Mountain where they circled and called for five minutes, or more. at 8:35 A.m. the first Imm. Red-tailed Hawk came from south and passed above our camp, flying laboriously, northward. Where after passing across the East face of Hopper Mountain, it passed from sight around the rocky ridge to the North. It was calm until 9:00 A.m. when a gentle but cool South wind commenced blowing on the ridges and in the passes. Several white Throated Swifts hunted insects over the Point where I sat on the ridge south of camp. Smog that filled the Los Angeles basin and adjoining valleys commenced to expand by 9:30 and soon arose to where only the Tops of the high Mountains east of the city could be made out above the yellowish cast of this Smog. Our Camp was above this Smog layer and the air about Sulphur Creek and Hopper Mountain was clear and sharp. at 10:45 A.m. an adult Golden Eagle came from the bottom of Hopper Canyon between sulphur and Soda creeks and spiraled upwards, to where it stood above the horizon from where I sat, and then drifted Northward up Hopper Canyon where it soon passed from sight against the dark background of the Chaparral brush cover of upper Hopper Canyon. at 10:53 an adult Golden Eagle passed swiftly south and then westward across the east side of Hopper Mountain near the top and disappeared into Pole Canyon. at 10:58 A.m. an adult Condor came down from —