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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: To Lassen (Inskip Hill)
Date: June 12, 1925
Page Number: 2459

Came on up the "Lassen highway" last evening
and camped for the night on the flat at the
southeast base of Inskip Hill within a mile of
Payne Creek P.O. - altitude close to 1800 ft. Here
is an almost pure stand of smallish yellow pines
and black oaks, some of the latter large. This
tract of woods constitutes an "island" of transition
at 1700 to 2100 ft. alt., entirely surrounded by
Upper Sonoran in which blue oak and digger pine
in usual scattering habit are the most conspicuous
indicators. We camped in the middle of the
yellow pine and black oak woods but the tract is
so restricted that we could hear out in
all directions, and furthermore the birds of the
surrounding "associations" cross or infiltrate, so
that, as far as I can judge from the birdlife,
there is no distinct transition aspect to the animal life here.
7:30 a.m. - Birds noted from our campsite last
night or this morning are as follows, mostly in
full song, and so giving the impression of great
numbers. Pacific Nighthawk (many, first out at
7:20 last evening and still in flight this morning
in brilliant sunshine at 6:30; "feathered whang"
heard whenever I was awake during the night);
Screech Owl (heard two during the night, trilling in
different pitches); Dusky Poorwill (heard calling
during the night from the bushy and stony

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nbahet

unknown1 - name of a hill, hopefully one well-known; I can't seem to discern or find a name that matches this on the web.

nbahet

unknown2 - Probably something to the effect of "regions," though I can't tell.

nbahet

unknown3 - once again, an unrecognizable word.

cfidler

Unknown1 is Inskip

kcorriveau

unknown3 changed to 'whang'