California Condor Eben McMillan 31 July 1964 To be capable of recognizing large birds and identifying them as to species. I Answered by stating that from childhood I had been interested in wildlife and birds in particular, while I have been an active member of both the American Ornithologists Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society for many years. Do you think your experience would qualify you to be able to identify a condor in flight within reasonable distances, Mr. St. Clare asked me. I answered that at present I was one of a team of two persons who had been commissioned to make a general Census and Population Count of California Condor in their normal range which encompasses most of Kern, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties and portions of Santa Barbara, Monterey-Tulare and Fresno Counties with odd occurrences of Condor in Los Angeles, San Benito and Madera Counties. I thought this would offer evidence that I would know Condor- well enough to identify them under most conditions. Mr. St. Clare then asked me to relate the incidences that happened on May 28, 1964 on the Ellsworth Ranch that is on the Sheep Trail grade about 10 miles east of Arvin California. This I did repeating as near as I could the chain of events that led up to and followed the Condor Shooting incident on May 28, 1964. I was then cross-questioned by the defense attorney. He tried to draw me out whereby my testimony would make it appear that I had conspired to make a case whereby Binkley would be brought to trial and in so doing act as a [illegible] big to develop notariety whereby such would -