| S3 Page 50Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Jose, 2500 ft. , Lat. 31 degrees
Date: Oct. 17
Page Number: 2593
(one, perching at dead tops of sycamores); Song Sparrow
(1, near seepage); Rufous-crowned Sparrow ( one shot and
another heard); Fox Sparrow (2); Spotted Towhee (2);
Brown towhee (1); Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1); Audubon
Warbler (fully 20); Valley Quail (2 large coveys);
Calif. Thrasher (one singing fitfully). I also
visited a hillside patch of "dry bog" -- clayey open
ground grown to foxtail grass in season. Here I
saw two Pipits, heard a Horned Lark, and saw
a company of Bluebirds, two of the males being of
the solidly blue-backed anabelae type; evidently
the San Pedro Martir mountain breeders drop down
the west slope for the winter. Coming back
across the mesa, I encountered a small company of
Black-tailed Gnatcatchers, taking one, probably a new
race; notes different from those of P. californica -- like
local Vigors Wren calls or Spotted Towhee's -- chi-chi-chi,
nasal, but not the kittenish whine of californica. Also
met with several Bell Sparrows, and several companies
of Intermediate Sparrows.
A 10-year old girl, Ada Meling, catches lizards
for me. The following she got by turning over boards and
stones around the ranch early in the forenoon
while the lizards are yet numb from the cold
(there was frost this morning here).
6527 Eumeces (under board)
6528 Cnemidophorus
6529 - 6535, 7 specimens of Sceloporus. | S3 Page 50Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Jose, 2500 ft. , Lat. 31 degrees
Date: Oct. 17
Page Number: 2593
(one, perching at dead tops of sycamores); Song Sparrow
(1, near seepage); Rufous-crowned Sparrow ( one shot and
another heard); Fox Sparrow (2); Spotted Towhee (2);
Brown towhee (1); Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1); Audubon
Warbler (fully 20); Valley Quail (2 large coveys);
Calif. Thrasher (one singing fitfully). I also
visited a hillside patch of "dry bog" -- clayey open
ground grown to foxtail grass in season. Here I
saw two Pipits, heard a Horned Lark, and saw
a company of Bluebirds, two of the males being of
the solidly blue-backed anabelae type; evidently the San Pedro Martir mountain breeders drop down
the west slope for the winter. Coming back
across the mesa, I encountered a small company of
Black-tailed Gnatcatchers, taking one, probably a new
race; notes different from those of P. californica -- like
local Vigors Wren calls or Spotted Towhee's -- chi-chi-chi,
nasal, but not the kittenish whine of californica. Also
met with several Bell Sparrows, and several companies
of Intermediate Sparrows.
A 10-year old girl, Ada Meling, catches lizards
for me. The following she got by turning over boards and
stones around the ranch early in the forenoon
while the lizards are yet numb from the cold
(there was frost this morning here).
6527 Eumeces (under board)
6528 Cnemidophorus
6529 - 6535, 7 specimens of Sceloporus. |
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