California Condor 11 September 1964 Jan and I were in Taft, Kern County at 1:00 p.m. We chatted with Robert Marshall, Manager, Crocker Angelo National Bank who in the process of telling us of condor observations stated Bert Sheddern had seen 45 condors in years past and he had observed 25 condors some years back, himself. We met Bob Tays, of Taft, who is a Boy Scout Leader, and who told us of seeing a dead condor about 1961 that lay at the base of a small tree, near a hunter's camp in a canyon above Mill Potrero on the north side of Mt. Pinos in Kern County. Mr. Tays said that when he first saw this condor carcass it was not too old and that it showed a large bullet hole through the breast. He understood a hunter had reported this carcass to Game Warden Bob Fischer of Taft who had told Mr. Tays of its whereabouts. Tays also took us to the home of his parents and produced the feathers (lying secondaries) he had taken from this bird which he had planned to take with him when he went to the Mill Potrero location. His plans were to make an Indian costume from the feathers. The odor of putrification discouraged him from transporting the carcass. We drove to Apache Potrero and at the Ranch of Berttram Sheddern Jr., met Mr. Sheddern and his son Richard. Bert Sheddern Jr. told us of seeing 12 condors some time back the exact date of which he had furnished Jan some time ago. He mentioned this observation by telling us by coming upon three birds that were perched on fence posts and did not attract their attention, he and his son Richard, thus until they flushed these three condor—