Gymnogyps californianus May 6, 1946 Tejon Ranch, Calif. Benny told me the story of how he caught a condor in the "Thompson Field" on the ranch. He was driving in his car when he came upon the bird & he followed be- birds off the bird with the car several times thus preventing it from flying off, & he found its legs out & then did [illegible] find it as the bird flew, then landed. Benny caught it with a lasso & put it in the back of his coupe. He had difficulty in "lassoing" the bird as "it was s[illegible] with its wings". He heard a great noise in there & pecked in to find the bird shaking & thrashing a pair of skid chains closet. Benny kept the bird several hours, showing it to people, then put it in a chicken wire cage (about 15'x20'). In the morning it was gone, the cage wire apparently having been cut in a vertical line. Benny thinks one of the Indians turned it loose. Benny was going to notify JR Lembi- ton to see if anyone wanted it. On another occa- sion, Benny tells, he came over a ridge into a cayote carcass. They had been poisoning coyotes with strychnine filled hollow balls at that time. There were eight condors around this large (about 35 lbs.) coyote. One grabbed the animal in its bill, lifted it, & shook it, then dropped it. Then the same bird pecked at it, breaking the skin, & the group moved in. Sprague, of course, tells a good story though basic facts are correct. He said condors nested once in a pine tree on Buckenidge Mtn... I talked with the First Tejon Ranch Blacksmith, Norton (or Morton). He was very loquacious but knew