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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Broke-off Mt.
Date: July 27
Page Number: 2533

foliage which the breeze kept in disconcerting agitation);
Cassin Purple Finch (2 or more, distantly heard and seen
in tops of hemlocks); Sierra Grouse (2, as above);
Hammond Flycatcher (2 immatures, separately, seen closely
in hemlocks at 8000 to 9000 ft.); Junco (2, in hemlocks).*

In the red-fir belt (Canadian), 8000 ft., about, down
to 7000 ft., where we left the machine, noted: Deer
(doe and fawn at edge of alder thicket); Callospermophilus
(2 or more); Thomomys monticola (sign common);
Fox Sparrow (one immature near patch of heather along
little stream at 8000 ft., and others heard in alder
patches); Juncos (commonest bird, one [male symbol] singing at
tip of lofty red fir - many full-grown young in scattering
troupes); Evening Grosbeak (one family of 5 or so alighted
on dead lower branches of a fir and notes of others
were heard now and then); Solitaire (one flushed from
ground); Siskin (notes of 2 or 3 heard overhead);
Blue-fronted Jay (heard several times); Cassin
Vireo
(2 immatures closely seen in a jungle of
white alders); Hammond Flycatcher (weak call notes
heard often, and one bird seen, 30 feet or so up in
densely shaded branchwork of fir); Wood Pewee (pair
at 7000 ft.); Pileated Warbler (song of one heard
from alders); Robin (a pair at a little ^moraine lake in the fir
woods was noisily concerned at our presence);
Audubon Warbler (a family, male singing, in
trees at this same lake); Canada Nuthatch
(notes heard in the distance).

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