California Condor Eben McMILLAN 27 January 1964 Thick, close, ground fog, that was very shallow in depth, lay in spots between Lost Hills and Wasco. East of Famosa about three miles we came upon a flock of sheep being moved eastward by three shepherds. One of these shepherds told me that the sheep were being moved out of the valley bottom and into the foothills. east of Famosa, Arriving in the foothills we drove off the road way visiting three shepherd house trailers, only one of which was occupied by anyone when we arrived. This shepherd was a very right completed, frackled faced, Red haired, Basque Spaniard who knew of Condor but had not seen any in the area although he had been camped here for several weeks and during this time knew of dead sheep being present most of the time. Neither had he seen Eagles although he claimed to have a knowledge of Eagles and could identify one were it to come into his area. As we drove over these rolling foothills with their shallow draws, with little or no erosion in their bottoms, and smooth rolling hilltops there was very little evidence of Ground squirrels in this area although this is the general area where Koford found Condor feeding regularly on Poisoned ground squirrels in the springtime when Poisoning activities were being carried on here in the years when he was doing his life history Study of Condor. Some of these dates by Koford were from May to August in 1946 when he found Condor feeding on Poisoned ground squirrels here. We saw only one den of ground squirrel in which three