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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 13
Page Number: 2585

6507 Pine Siskin (female sign) ad. 11.3g. Shot from pine} In each case
6508 Pine Siskin (female sign) ad. 12.1g. Shot from pine} flew up
from bushes of Salvia carnosa.
6509 Slender-billed Nuthatch (female sign) ad. 17.0g. Shot From Pine.
6510 Slender-billed Nuthatch (male sign) ad. 17.7g. Shot From Pine.
6511 Townsend Junco (male sign (?)) im. 18.2g. Shot on grass at streamside.
6512 Calif. Jay (male sign) ad. 69.6g. Shot from dead pine on brushy hillside.
6513 Eutamias merriami (female sign) 59.5g. 225x93x34x15. In rat trap.
6514 Neotoma fuscipes (female sign) 103g. 295x138x32x23. In trap,
newly set, at nest of pine needles, twigs, and branches between
and under boulders.
Discarded: 3 Peromyscus truei, 2(female sign female sign), 1 ( male sign); one of these
at same wood-rat's nest as no. 6514, others under edges
of boulders with manzanita and scrubby oaks about.
Today, 7:20 to 12:20, I took a strenuous walk
about 5 miles due east to the jumping-off place, in other words
to the eastern rim of the San Pedro Martir plateau.
I went up the Arroya La Encantada to the big main
"meadow" (now just weeds -- the tall slender composite with
inconspicuous flowers, sample saved from near camp);
then off along the eastern arm of this flat and up
a draw over a divide at, I think, about 8000 feet,
and down into the head of El Cajon Canyon which
makes down precipitously onto the San Felipe Desert.
I climbed a hill and got a fine view east,
across the San Felipe desert, then the San Felipe
range of desert mountains, then a further strip
of desert, and then the gulf, beyond which I could

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 13
Page Number: 2585

6507 Pine Siskin (female sign) ad. 11.3g. Shot from pine} In each case
6508 Pine Siskin (female sign) ad. 12.1g. Shot from pine} flew up
from bushes of Salvia carnosa.
6509 Slender-billed Nuthatch (female sign) ad. 17.0g. Shot From Pine.
6510 Slender-billed Nuthatch (male sign) ad. 17.7g. Shot From Pine.
6511 Townsend Junco (male sign (?)) im. 18.2g. Shot on grass at streamside.
6512 Calif. Jay (male sign) ad. 69.6g. Shot from dead pine on brushy hillside.
6513 Eutamias merriami (female sign) 59.5g. 225x93x34x15. In rat trap.
6514 Neotoma fuscipes (female sign) 103g. 295x138x32x23. In trap,
newly set, at nest of pine needles, twigs, and branches between
and under boulders.
Discarded: 3 Peromyscus truei, 2(female sign female sign), 1 ( male sign); one of these
at same wood-rat's nest as no. 6514, others under edges
of boulders with manzanita and scrubby oaks about.
Today, 7:20 to 12:20, I took a strenuous walk
about 5 miles due east to the jumping-off place, in other words
to the eastern rim of the San Pedro Martir plateau.
I went up the Arroya La Encantada to the big main
"meadow" (now just weeds -- the tall slender composite with
inconspicuous flowers, sample saved from near camp);
then off along the eastern arm of this flat and up
a draw over a divide at, I think, about 8000 feet,
and down into the head of El Cajon Canyon which
makes down precipitously onto the San Felipe Desert.
I climbed a hill and got a fine view east,
across the San Felipe desert, then the San Felipe
range of desert mountains, then a further strip
of desert, and then the gulf, beyond which I could