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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Date: September 25
Location: To Santa Domingo
Page Number: 2547
Brown Towhee ( only 3 in this stretch of road, tho
noted commonly elsewhere along today's route);
Valley Quail (one, in road ahead). As to
mammals, say many fresh cirn(?) tracks in
beach sand close to surf at Colnett Beach; also
saw lots of Dipodomys tracks in dusty surface of
bare ground among salicornia and saltgrass patches.
just inside of barrier beach. Saw several
ammospermophilus in agave belt - white tail held
as in leucurus. To me, the brown towhees
look decidedly darker and smaller than Berkeley
birds - tails blacker. Maybe this is only imagination;
or seeing differences due to different "setting".
We proceeded rapidly on to Miss Hattie
Hamilton's ranch near the old mission site of Santo
Domingo, on Santo Domingo "river" (now waterless) at this
point. It is an exceedingly dry period, little
rain for three years, and water is scarce, obtained
only from wells. Miss Hamilton is a wonderfully
efficient ranch manager, and her place is an
oasis in this desert land - shade -trees, fruits,
cultivated flowers, etc. I saw a House
Wren about the shrubbery; at least two
Western Flycatchers in the pepper trees; etc.
After a splendid dinner, we proceeded
(back-tracking in part) to San Telmo, some 10
miles above which place we are now (7
P.M.) camped for the night). We made it

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Date: September 25
Location: To Santa Domingo
Page Number: 2547
Brown Towhee ( only 3 in this stretch of road, tho
noted commonly elsewhere along today's route);
Valley Quail (one, in road ahead). As to
mammals, say many fresh cirn(?) tracks in
beach sand close to surf at Colnett Beach; also
saw lots of Dipodomys tracks in dusty surface of
bare ground among salicornia and saltgrass patches.
just inside of barrier beach. Saw several
ammospermophilus in agave belt - white tail held
as in leucurus. To me, the brown towhees
look decidedly darker and smaller than Berkeley
birds - tails blacker. Maybe this is only imagination;
or seeing differences due to different "setting".
We proceeded rapidly on to Miss Hattie
Hamilton's ranch near the old mission site of Santo
Domingo, on Santo Domingo "river" (now waterless) at this
point. It is an exceedingly dry period, little
rain for three years, and water is scarce, obtained
only from wells. Miss Hamilton is a wonderfully
efficient ranch manager, and her place is an
oasis in this desert land - shade -trees, fruits,
cultivated flowers, etc. I say a House
Wren about the shrubbery; at least two
Western Flycatchers in the pepper trees; etc.
After a splendid dinner, we proceeded
(back-tracking in part) to San Telmo, some 10
miles above which place we are now (7
P.M.) camped for the night). We made it