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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.
Date: June 29
Page Number: 2510

6273 Traill Flycatcher [female symbol] ad. 13.0 g. with set 3/4 (see p. 2508).
6274 Traill] [Flycatcher] [female symbol] ad. 12.7 g. [with] [set] 3/4 (see p. 2509).

First up - mountain Western House Wren in snow-
brush by camp at 4 p.m.

June 30
Have come with family up Viola trail
towards Brokeoff Mountain, and now (12:30) we
are lunching at first snow - only meagre remains
of drifts - at rock slide, about 7500 feet, where I
found conies on the 17th. Now, I hear them in
two directions, close by, but have failed to see one.
The day is perfectly clear, and the sun beats down
perfervidly. The trees about me are: red fir,
predominating; hemlock, a few; mountain pine (P.
monticola), more. The "chaparral" is: scattered flat
mats of arctostaphylos nevadensis and scrawny
chinquapin; most of the ground is perfectly bare of
living vegetation. What sounded like a veritable
troup of Crossbills flew overhead a while ago - at
least there was a chorus of sharp "chup-chup's"; I
caught sight of just two birds thru the trees, in
undulating, linnet-like flight. Other birds seen ^^{or heard here}
the past hour (now 1 o'clock) have been: Hammond
Flycatcher, Ruby-crown Kinglet, Solitaire, Audubon
Warbler, Western Tanager, Calliope Hummer,^ ^{Mountain Chickadee, Rock Wren,} Clark Nutcracker.
I consider this extreme upper Canadian zone.

At about 6500-foot level, saw two Callospermophilus
chrysodeirus, the only two ground squirrels of this species