Gymnogyps californianus April 25, 1946 Falls Canyon, Calif. and was at the stream in Dead Oaks Canyon at 890m. seeing conditions fair - light breeze only in canyon. There I met a man who was in charge of a trail crew camped there. His name was Witter (or something like that). He said they normally worked 10 days & then went "out" via South Fork for 4 days. They had been in the league for about 2 months but had seen very few condors - about 2 maximum at a time. He said they saw 2 perched on the rocks upstream from the falls recently. Most trail work had been along the league as they were waiting for snow to clear. It had rained almost all month in December, he said. A man had killed a deer near South Fork Camp & they saw a couple (?) of condors circling over where they thought the lion had dropped the carcass. I continued on. At Bend Cliffs there was a much & freshly (it appeared) whitewashed pothole about halfway up the cliff on the fallsward side - no whitewash on top or or nearby rocks. 2 or 3 of the perch trees in side can- yons in the Ceder Sanctuary seemed to show some whit- ening as if used for perches. At 9:15 I was at the brink of the falls. There was a fast stream of clear water running. The prominent perch rocks about 100 yds. SE of falls 450+ above was uninhabited. There was neither whitewash nor feathers nor evidence of gorse eating in the pool basin, but on a flat ledge 7+' above the water level and 15+ W. of it there was about