Transcribing the field notes of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: Mineral, 4,800 ft. Date: July 28 Page Number: 2534

Heard "pe-ark" notes of Nighthawk last evening. A Green-backed Goldfinch flew over camp. Heard a Cooper Hawk calling near camp. Blue-fronted Jays are much more in evidence now than a month ago - noisier. A circuit this evening, till dusk, down along the willows and tracts of lodgepole pines left an impression of extreme quietness; nothing was singing. Juncos in two places showed worry, as if young were near by. The squeal notes of young robins were heard. A lone Wright Flycatcher gave a two-syllabled "see-pit" a few times.

July 29 Mrs. G and I went up the Viola (Martin Cr. ridge) Trail to about the 5800. foot contour, taking the accompanying 4-hour census, 8:30 - 12:30; Mrs. G. pencil-checked on card-board; results, 31 species, 134 individuals, in 4 hours - not so bad, considering the songlessness [sic] of nearly all species. The only songs heard were: Fox Sparrow (once); Warbling Vireo (2, singing rather persistently); Mountain Chickadee (both "jumbling" burble and tee-tee, too-too); Cassin Purple Finch (merely fragmentary). Only food calls, or location notes, or clean calls of all other species heard. A brood of 3 bob-tailed frowsy-headed young Tolmie Warblers in ceanothus cordulatus patch, with [female symbol] parent. Saw where a Chickaree was working in a yellow pine - ground beneath strewn with fresh green cone scales and cores; heard at least 4 chickarees.

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: Mineral Date: July 29 Page Number: 2535

We were seated on a log, when a Eutamias senex ran across some open round within 40 feet of us and disappeared into another large log; in the animal's mouth was a baby chipmunk, about 1/4 grown it looked, belly up and tail curled over the mother's head. As I was walking along the trail, I saw some small animal scurry along the side of a rotten log and across the open for 2 feet disappearing under a slab of rotten wood. I lifted up the latter, expecting a lizard (tho [sic] no lizard has been seen up Viola Trail), when out popped a Shrew (see beyond) which Mrs. G. pounced upon with success. Here was a case of a shrew venturing out into the open close to noon of a brilliantly sunshiny day; it was a suckling [female symbol]. The rotten wood and earth beneath the log and slab was quite damp. No nest was discovered.

6295 Sorex m. mariposa (?) [female symbol] suckling 6.8g. 120x51x14.5x4. Caught under slab (as above) on ground in Transition zone (Dry woods of yellow pine, white fir and incense cedar) on ridge at 550 ft., 2 mi. NE Mineral.

6296 Sorex v. amoenus (?) [male symbol] 4.7g 108x44x11.5x3. Caught in oat-baited mouse trap (scented) set in rank grass under willows in bog near camp.

6297 Thomomys monticola [male symbol] 92g. 205x66x26x8.

6298 [Thomomys] [monticola] [male symbol] ju. 51g. 170x55x25x7.

Both these gophers caught near camp, in traps, in dryish ground between ceanothus thickets.

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: Mineral Date: July 29 Page Number: 2536

6299 Calaveras Warbler [female symbol] ju.* 8.6g. at 5500 ft. 6300 [Calaveras] [Warbler] [female symbol] im.* 8.3g. [at] [5500] [ft.] 6301 Sierra Creeper [male symbol] ad.** 30.9g. testes - [testes illustration] [at] [5500] [ft.] 6302 Mariposa Fox Sparrow [male symbol] ad.* 30.9g. testes - [testes illustration] [at] [5500] [ft.] 6303 Mountain Quail [male symbol] ju. 48.6 g. In rat-baited trap ^^{in willows} near camp. 6304 Tolmie Warbler [female symbol] ad.*** 9.4g. At 5500 ft. 6305 Cassin Vireo [female symbol] ad.** 14.9g. [at] [5500] [ft.] 6306 Sierra Hermit Thrush** [female symbol] ad. 23.6g. [at] [5500] [ft.] 6307 Green-Tailed Towhee [male symbol] ad.* testes - [testes illustration] 26.7g. [at] [5500] [ft.]

*Shot in arctostaphylos patula bush.

6308 Thomomys monticola [male symbol] ju. 71.5g. 192x67x25.5x6.5. 6309 [Thomomys] [monticola ] [female symbol] ju. 47.5g. 166x56x24.5x6.

July 30

Saw a single Nighthawk last evening, and saw it swoop and boom once.

6310 Thomomys monticola [female symbol] ju. 51.5g. 174x58x25x7. 6311 Sorex v. amoenus (?) 4.6g. 100x37x12x3. (In formalin.) 6312 [Sorex] [v.] [amoenus ] (?) 4.2g. 105x41x12.5x3.5.

These two shrews in mouse traps set in rank grass under willows in the "bog." 6313 Thomomys monticola [male symbol] ju. 71g. 180x60x27x8. 6314 [Thomomys] [monticola] [male symbol] 76g. 188x67x27.5x8.5.

July 31 Took a 4-hour census sheet on, and in the vicinity of, Battle Creek Meadows this forenoon, as per accompanying census sheet. Mrs. G. pencil-checked on cardboard, results, 31