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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Primeras Encinas, 6400 ft.
Date: Oct. 1
Page Number: 2557

live oaks); Linnet (heard in flight overhead);
Green-backed Goldfinch (2 or more about); Russet-
backed Thrush (heard again); Wren-tit (notes heard often).
There is some sage-brush here again, after a long interval
between here and San Jose without any.
6.00 p.m. -- Have made final camp beyond La
Grulla Meadow, on the arroyo La Encantada about 3 miles
north of the "lake" at La Grulla. Said arroyo is here
a small stream weakly lined with willows, and two
thin tracts of aspens in sight. As I left
Primeras Encinas, about 8 oclock, I saw my first anabelae
bluebird, a thoroly (sic) blue-backed one. Thence clear on
to here, save on the dry chaparel (sic) ridges, bluebirds
were often seen. Below our nights camp, the trail
goes down a head tributary of Valladares Creek, with
water and abundant live oaks and some pines. Birds
were numerous along there, including California
Woodpeckers, Calif. Jays, Pigmy Nuthatches, Mountain
Chickadees, Spurred towhees, etc. It would make
a fine collecting station. At the first extensive
pines, La Canoa, birds again were plentiful, including
numbers of Pinyon Jays. On one of the bushy
ridges (manzanita, adenostoma, cascara, etc.) I saw
distinctly two brown-backed Fox Sparrows and heard
the call-notes of others. Saw a number of
Rufous-Hummers along the way; and at the edge
of La Grulla Meadows saw two Lewis Woodpeckers
in flight and then alit in pine trees.