Transcribing the field notes of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft. Date: Oct. 7 Page Number: 2574

6434 Gray Fox (female sign) 10 lbs. (by "handcuff" scales). 915x365x121x70. Caught in a setting of one no. 0 newhouse trap under a cascara bush on the side of "Microtus" gorge. Bait, bird and mouse bodies. I have seen a number of fox foot-prints in trails before the rain; also a few of Coyote -- but curiously we have heard no note of the latter. I have been trying for Spilogale -- but not a smell! I doubt if Heller's specimen came from up here; more likely it came from an upper Sonoran locality; this should be looked into carefully, by checking dates against localities in his [Elliot's] report. Besides birds taken, I noted the following: Green backed Goldfinch(2, one of which was giving the food call of a juvenile; Sharp-shinned Hawk (seen twice); Anna Hummer (1); Rufous Hummer (1); Crossbill (unmistakable notes heard in the distance); Pinyon Jay (a noisy troupe around again today); California Jay (the first one I have seen appeared on the brushy hillside back of camp near noon, was "squeaked" [my jay call] into a nearer pine, but stayed out of range). 6435 Mountain Chickadee (male sign) ad. 12.2g. Shot from small pine. 6436 Cabanis Woodpecker (female sign) 57g. Shot at cluster of cones 75 feet up in pine, pecking out seeds. 6437 Merriam Chipmunk (male sign) 57.5g. 215x86x32.5x15. Two Jeffrey pine seeds in each of the cheek-pouches.