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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Jose, 2500 ft., lat. 31°
Date: Oct. 23
Page Number: 2603
6591 Cactus Woodpecker (female sign)37.4g. Shot from Ephedra bush.
6592 Red-naped Sapsucker (female sign) 46.4g. Shot from upper stem of willow.
6593 Bewick Wren (female sign) im. 9.2g. Shot under sage-bush.
6594 Bell Sparrow (male sign) ad. 15.7g. Shot under sage-bush.
6595 Bell Sparrow (male sign) ad. 16.0g. Shot among buckwheat bushes and greasewood.
6596 Black Phoebe ad. 18.3g. Shot from fence post in creek bottom.
6597 Brown Towhee (male sign) ad. 42.1g. Shot in Garrya bush.
5 p.m. -- Raining steadily. Barometer, 26.90 inches.
6598 Thomomys (female sign) 101.5g. 200x63x29x5. In sandy bottom.
6599 Thomomys (female sign) 103.5g. 203x61x28x5. In sandy bottom.
Oct. 24
Rained gently and warmly all night. At 5 a.m. I
saw 10 Killdeers flying northwest high overhead; also 10
Bluebirds (in each case counted).
6600 Thomomys (female sign) 103.2g. 205x68x29x4. Came up under "potato house."
6601 Bell Sparrow (male sign) ad. 16.3g. On dead bush among sage-bush and buckwheat.
6602 Bell Sparrow (female sign) im. 14.3g. On dead bush among sage-bush and buckwheat.
6603 Thomomys (male sign) 122g. 215x73x27x5. In sandy bottom.
6604 Pipit (female sign) ad. 17.5g. On stubble field.
This evening, after rain all day, it let up a bit, and
I went out, in dense fog, to the upper 25-acre gain-
field. A flock of fully 50 Pipits were there; and trailing
about in their wake were 8 or so Bluebirds.
Oct. 25
6605 Killdeer (male sign) 90.8g. A flock of 13 and another of 7,
on stubble-field early this morning, 5:30-6:00. Clear
Barometer, 27.05. Pipits about in numbers. Saw
one shy Lark Bunting, around old grain and corn fields.