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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Jose, 2500 ft., lat. 31°
Date: Oct. 26
Page Number: 2605

6622 Thomomys (female sign) 95g. 203x62x29x4,. In sandy bottom.
6623 Thomomys (male sign) 145g. 208x60x26.5x4. In sandy bottom.
Out into the hills at 5:30 a.m.; night perfectly clear,
but heavy fog developed soon after daybreak and continued
till 9. a.m. On a slope covered with Eriogonum
(prevalent), Adenostoma fasciculatum, Hosackia, Andibertia,
and small scattered buckeyes, located a Rufous-crowned
Sparrow thru hearing its weird notes set up at my
"squeaking"; but I never got more than a distant glimpse
of the bird. I think a "buckwheat association" might usefully
be recognized (in addition to the "grease-wood association") as a
subdivision of the general "chaparral association." Each
morning long before sunrise I see a series of Flickers
fly west from the bottomland cottonwoods and willows,
to the east-facing hillslopes where they perch on yuccas
or dead or leafless shrubs, fluffed up, apparently
waiting for the sun; perhaps they do their first
foraging for the day there. Other birds on these
hillsides this morning were; Bewick Wrens, Wren-tits,
and Intermediate Sparrows, the latter equaling all the
other combined as to numbers.
Many bushes, heretofore leafless, are now coming out
in bursting buds (notably the buckeye) or even in
flower buds. Ferns, delicate green ones, are appearing
everywhere in shaded ravine sides; and club moss
is abundant in places -part of the "buckwheat-granite-
gravel association." Fillaree is coming up everywhere,
especially in burned areas.

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Jose, 2500 ft., lat. 31°
Date: Oct. 26
Page Number: 2605

6622 Thomomys (female sign) 95g. 203x62x29x4,. In sandy bottom.
6623 Thomomys (male sign) 145g. 208x60x26.5x4. In sandy bottom.
Out into the hills at 5:30 a.m.; night perfectly clear,
but heavy fog developed soon after daybreak and continued
till 9. a.m. On a slope covered with Eriogonum
(prevalent), Adenostoma fasciculatum, Hosackia, Andibertia,
and small scattered buckeyes, located a Rufous-crowned
Sparrow thru hearing its weird notes set up at my
"squeaking"; but I never got more than a distant glimpse
of the bird. I think a "buckwheat association" might usefully
be recognized (in addition to the "grease-wood association") as a
subdivision of the genera "chaparral association." Each
morning long before sunrise I see a series of Flickers
fly west from the bottomland cottonwoods and willows,
to the east-facing hillslopes where they perch on yuccas
or dead or leafless shrubs, fluffed up, apparently
waiting for the sun; perhaps they do their first
foraging for the day there. Other birds on these
hillsides this morning were; Bewick Wrens, Wren-tits,
and Intermediate Sparrows, the latter equaling all the
other combined as to numbers.
Many bushes, heretofore leafless, are now coming out
in bursting buds (notably the buckeye) or even in
flower buds. Ferns, delicate green ones, are appearing
everywhere in shaded ravine sides; and club moss
is abundant in places -part of the "buckwheat-granite-
gravel association." Fillaree is coming up everywhere,
especially in burned areas.