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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 13
Page Number: 2586

see in very faint outline the mountains of
Sonora. The panorama reminded me strongly of that
seen from the Santa Rosa or San Jacinto mountains
of southern California eastward. Toward the top of
the divide the prevailing Jeffrey pines were mixed
with some white fir, incense cedar and sugar pine;
and in the rough hills adjoining the pass were
numerous scrubby oaks, and rather dense chaparral
of manzanita, buckthorn, and cascara. It was here, on
the dessert slope of the divide, that I encountered the
three Calif. Jays.
The following census was pencil checked on card-board
on the way out, from camp to my farthest point over
the divide, 7:20 to 10:00. Pigmy Nuthatch 68;
Audubon Warbler 5 (only along the stream); Bluebird 10;
Cabanis Woodpecker 6; Townsend Junco 13; Chickadee 10;
Raven 5; Red-tailed Hawk 2; Pinyon Jay 1 (heard);
Olive-backed Thrush (1, in cascara bush); Canyon Wren 2;
Williamson Sapsucker 1; Slender-billed Nuthatch 4;
Red-shafted Flicker 1; Spurred Towhee 1; Siskin 5;
Calif. Jay 3. Total, 17 species, 138 individuals, in
2 2/3 hours. Note that just about half of all
the birds noted were Pigmy Nuthatches! Of mammals
I checked in the same period; Chipmunk 28;Scirus 2
(in pine near divide); Wildcat (one out in open
meadow in bight sunshine; bounded up a draw;
may have been laying for birds coming to drink
at the seepage near where he was); on the way down