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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Jose, 2500 ft.
Date: Oct. 17
Page Number: 2592

that this vast Lower California chaparral territory carries
thru the winter a great Passerella population, at least
as great per unit of area as the foothill belt of
upper California.
The following birds were shot the morning of the 18th
around our La Grulla camp:
6521 Sierra (?) Hermit Thrush (female sign) im. 27.8g. In cascara bush.
6522 Olive-backed Thrush (female sign) im. 29.8g. In cascara bush.
6523 Chipping Sparrow (male sign) im. 12.1g. On ground among Salvia bushes.
6524 Townsend Junco (male sign) ad. 19.1g. Shot from lower pine branch.
6525 Bluebird (male sign) im. 28.7g. Shot from cascara bush.
6526 Intermediate (?) Sparrow (male sign)28.0g. Shot in willow thicket.
Today I took advantage of a team going west
over the road toward San Telmo to ride about 3
miles air-line. From there I visited an oak and
sycamore lined canyon I had been told about,
emptying into San Telmo valley. I worked the upper
two miles or so of said canyon, finding water
in two places. Birds were scarce in it; there are
no acorns this year, and that may account for the
absence of some things like woodpeckers. The oaks
are all regular live-oaks, some large; but recent
purposely-set fires had killed many of them. The
canyon walls are just like the hillsides hereabouts
-- "white-barked" manzanita, etc. The birds I
saw in the canyon bottom were; Calif. Jay (about 8,
all told, very quiet and shy); Nuttall Woodpecker (one,
working in the sycamores); Olive-sided Flycatcher