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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: To Mineral
Date: July 25
Page Number: 2528

Last spec.
no. 6292

Stu and I in the machine left Berkeley at 4
yesterday afternoon, slept on the "badlands" midnight
to 4:45 a.m., left Red Bluff at 6:15 a.m. and reached the family
camp above Mineral at 9:45 a.m. Notable along the
highway within 12 miles below Red Bluff were the
Yellow-billed Magpies, 2 to 6 or 8 in sight at once and
very tame, on the ground or roadside fences with autos
passing close by. At Dale's on Paine Creek, although
7:30 a.m., hardly any birds now singing; a Wood
Pewee
was drawling, and a Chat singing fitfully,
more so than normally. Within a mile above
Dale's, a Roadrunner sped ahead of us a little ways,
then made off among the boulders. From Dale's
clean up to the first yellow pines (at 3200 about)
I was impressed by the numbers of Douglas Ground
Squirrel
s
and Jack Rabbits; numbers of partly grown
young of each species were seen. Below (west of)
Battle Creek Meadows along the highway up the north
wall of the canyon about the bridge, I saw at least
8 Callospermophilus, one of them not over 1/3 grown.
An adult was seen at the roadside close to the
north side of the Meadows. This species seems
to come down with the fir belt from the high
mountain immediately to the north. Here
at camp I am impressed by the quietness
of the birdlife. Once in a while there is
the broken song of a Fox Sparrow; and
the Chickadee's "tee-tee, too, too" is heard; but

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