Transcribing the field notes of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft. Date: Oct. 9 Page Number: 2578

6456 Slender-billed Nuthatch (female sign) ad. 16.8g. Shot from bole of pine. 6457 Sierra (?) Junco (male sign) im. 18.3g. Shot on ground among salvia bushes. This was the only junco of this form seen so far; alone. 6458 Junco (male sign) ad. 18.3g. bill, pinkish white; iris sepia; shot in willow. 6459 Junco (male sign) im. 18.8g. bill, pinkish white; iris sepia; shot in willow with the last. 6460 Bluebird (female sign) im. 27.3g. Shot in pine. 6461 Bluebird (male sign) im. 28.2. Shot in pine. 6462 Bluebird (male sign) im. 29.9. Shot in pine. 6463 Bluebird (male sign) ad. 28.5g. Shot in pine. 6464 Cabanis Woodpecker (female sign) 46.7g. Shot in pine. 6465 Cabanis Woodpecker (female sign) 53.6g. Shot in pine. This morning I went off to the south about 2 miles up a draw and into some hills where there was considerable of the oak growth that looked good for birds from a distance. I saw nothing there, however, not common around camp; only a few Mountain Chickadees, one small company of Bluebirds, two Cabanis Woodpeckers, and the ever-present Pigmy Nuthatches. All of these were in or about pines, not in the oaks at all. Oh yes, -- two Ravens flew over. Most of the birds put up today, and listed above, I shot within half a mile of camp. Of the bluebirds, pigmy nuthatches, and chickadees, there is a seemingly exhaustless supply right around us. Saw a Tanager today, in the cascara thickets, where I shot one the other day. Heard the

Collector: Grinnell-1925 Location: La Grulla, 7,200 ft. Date: October 11, 1925 Page Number: 2583

Barometer tonight, 23.10 inches; clear and cold - an inch of ice on water bucket this morning. Ground Squirrels (beecheyi) are still out in numbers. I suppose they may hibernate here, but no signs of it yet. Chipmunks simply swarm on certain bushy slopes - 6 in sight at once, scampering over boulders, or over the ground from bush to bush. They have all the notes of ordinary merriami - the hollow "bock", etc. I have seen "sign" of Jack Rabbit, but not one of the animals. This is evidently not a rabbit year. Saw two Ruby-crowned Kinglets in the willows today; one Tanager in cascara; at least 4 Solitaires, whose interests center around the cascara thickets, as do those of the Bluebirds. 6493 Slender-billed Nuthatch (female symbol) ad. 16.3g. Shot from pine bole. 6494 Pine Siskin (female symbol) ad. 15.2g. Shot from up in pine. Oct. 12 Trap-line played out; only 18 Peromyscus truei in trap under manzanita - discarded. 6495 Olive-backed thrush (female symbol) im. 29.1g. In rat-trap under manzanita. 6496 Cañon Wren (female symbol) ad. 10.4g. Shot from boulder, one up a pile. 6497 San Lucas Flycatcher (male symbol) im. 8.9g. Shot in willow thicket, from perch 5 feet up. The only individual tyrannid of any sort whatsoever seen here this fall. 6498Slender-billed Nuthatch (male symbol) ad. 16.8g. Shot in pine. 6499Pigmy Nuthatch (female symbol) ad. 11.1g. Shot from pine. 6500Sierra (?) Junco (female symbol) im. 15.3g. Alone; shot on ground among salvia bushes;