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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Jose, 2500 ft., lat. 31°
Date: Oct. 26
Page Number: 2606
6624 Yellowthroat (male sign) im. 9.7g. Shot in willow.
6625 Red-naped Sapsucker (male sign) 41.5g. Shot in willow.
6626 Song Sparrow (male sign) ad. 18.1g. Shot in willow.
6627 Bush-tit (female sign) im. 5.1g. Shot out of elder-berry tree.
6628 Bush-tit (male sign) im. 5.4g. Shot out of elder-berry tree.
6629 Ruby-crown (sic) Kinglet (female sign) ad. 5.6g. Shot in top of tall willow.
Perfectly clear day; barometer, 27.20 inches.

Oct. 27
Last night heard a Horned Owl, two Screech Owls and
a Poor-will, all in full tune. A House Wren is in the
thatch shelter of the wagons.

Broke camp and left at 9 a.m. for the west end of the 'section."
Stopped at the "dry bog", about 2800 ft. alt. [see p. 2549],
10 to 11 a.m.. There found Horned Larks common, some
of the males isolated out, as if settling for nesting, on
rocks or bare places; (female sign)'s in flocks, shy. Also
numerous Pipits there, a few Meadowlarks, and
a lone Lark Bunting in low bushes at edge of
"bog", which has become brilliantly green, chiefly
with filaree -- a great green hilltop. One Jack rabbit jumped.
6630 Lark Bunting (male sign) ad. 36.7g. On ground among small buckwheat borders(?)at edge of (??).
6631 Horned Lark (male sign) ad. 26.7g. On ground of open grassy hilltop.
6632 Horned Lark (male sign) ad. 27.0g. On ground of open grassy hilltop.
6633 Horned Lark (male sign) ad. testes. 0. 28.0g. On ground of open grassy hilltop.
6634 Horned Lark (male sign) ad. 28.0g. On ground of open grassy hilltop.
6635 Jack Rabbit (male sign) 530x90x112x151.
Continued on down the mountain and landed
in San Telmo valley (strikeout) above San Telmo. In

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Nathani

6625, 6626, 6628, 6632, 6633, 6634: Shot locations dittoed.
6628, 6632, 6633, 6634: names dittoed.
6635 Lepus californicus bennettii penciled in over Jack Rabbit. This inscription is hard to read but I don't see any other subspecies close to bennettii.