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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Turner Mt., 6300 ft.
Date: July 3
Page Number: 2518

chaparral there); I looked for sign and listened for
Conies in the rocks along the rim of the cirque, but
unsuccessfully, tho there was plenty of sign of
Bushy-Tailed Wood Rats among the rocks.

Down the trail, within the red fir belt (Canadian
Zone), which does not go much below the 5500 foot
contour, on the north side of the mountain, noted, both
going and coming: Sierra Grouse (a [male symbol] flushed from
near the top of a red fir spire and, with set wings,
shot down the steep north slope); Mt. Quail (one heard
in chaparral); Solitaire (one in full song, and another
seen foraging among logs and about bases of trees);
Western Tanager (2 or more); Canada Nuthatch (one);
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2, in song); Robin (2, singing);
Audubon Warbler (one, singing); Hammond Flycatcher (2,
in red firs); Warbling Vireo (one, singing in patch
of white alders).

The trail up Turner Mt. from the south edge
of Battle Creek Meadows, to about the 5500-foot contour,
goes thru [sic] typical transition. A conspicuous floral
element there, not seen on the Mineral side of the
Meadows, is the Nuttall dogwood, now getting past
blooming. There is a little black oak, lots of Ceanothus
prostratus low down and of C. cordulatus farther up;
conifers: Douglas spruce, yellow pine, incense cedar,
sugar pine, and white fir. Noted the following
species of birds ^^{in this belt,} going up 12:45 to 3:00 p.m., or
coming down, 7 to 8:15 p.m.: Hermit Warbler,