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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 4
Page Number: 2568

luxuriously there! Beside these plants there was
a border of lush clover, scarlet-flowered mimulus, etc., wherever the
stream was sandy; and the willows and a tall
composite made up a veritable jungle. Also,
there were some very tall and slender aspens, whose
leaves are now straw yellow and tinkle in the
breeze. A Canyon Wren had his home in the crannied
walls of this gorge, but showed himself only
momentarily, tho I kept hearing his "bzt" with
hollow intonation far back in the clefts. The only
other birds in the gorge were Valley Quail; a
flock had come down in to drink. Here
was a cattle-less oasis!
Today I saw two Rufous Hummers, each at
the Salvia carnosa blooms. This plant, a green(?) shrub
about a foot and a half high, is prevalent on
dry gravel flats. Its sweet sagey scent fills the
air. I saw also: Western House Wren ( one,
in cascara); Red-tailed Hawk (2, squalling, perched
in adjacent dead trees); Linnet (2, in fruiting
cascara bush); Intermediate Sparrow (fully 20, all
I saw closely brown-crowned); Audubon Warbler
(many, on close grazed clover at water's edge);
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1, on clover patch far out
in open);
Besides the mammals put up, my trap-line
this morning brot only Peromyscus truei, 2 (male sign, male sign), 1 (female sign);
two under edges of boulders, 1 in streamside willows.

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 4
Page Number: 2568

luxuriously there! Beside these plants there was
a border of lush clover, scarlet-flowered mimulus, etc., wherever the
stream was sandy; and the willows and a tall
composite made up a veritable jungle. Also,
there were some very tall and slender aspens, whose
leaves are now straw yellow and tinkle I the
breeze. A Canyon Wren had his home in the crannied
walls of this gorge, but showed himself only
momentarily, tho I kept hearing his "bzt" with
hollow intonation far back in the clefts. The only
other birds in the gorge were Valley Quail; a
flock had come down in to drink. Here
was a cattle-less oasis!
Today I saw two Rufous Hummers, each at
the Salvia carnosa blooms. This plant, a green(?) shrub
about a foot and a half high, is prevalent on
dry gravel flats. Its sweet sagey scent fills the
air. I saw also: Western House Wren ( one,
in cascara); Red-tailed Hawk (2, squalling, perched
in adjacent dead trees); Linnet (2, in fruiting
cascara bush); Intermediate Sparrow (fully 20, all
I saw closely brown-crowned); Audubon Warbler
(many, on close grazed clover at water's edge);
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1, on clover patch far out
in open);
Besides the mammals put up, my trap-line
this morning brot only Peromyscus truei, 2 (male sign, male sign), 1 (female sign);
two under edges of boulders, 1 in streamside willows.