Transcribing the field notes of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: To Mt. Lassen Date: Aug. 1 Page Number: 2538 main hot springs are. At five this morning, I woke, hearing the full song of the Olive-sided Flycatcher, repeated many times from the tip of a big red fir. By the way, red firs might more appropriately be called "black" firs: the mass of the tree, folige [sic] and branches, deeply shaded centrally, look black, the ends of the sprays, blue-green. As we got breakfast and prepared to come up the trail, Cassia Purple Finches, including adult males and Siskins came to the ground around the old log cabin and the camping places. We left camp about 6:45. Along streamlets and around little seepage meadows grown to grass and veratrum, and surrounded with mats of Spirea densiflora (lavender flower spikes), heather (blossoming profusely now) and on dry surfacing ridges, arctostaphylos nevadensis, small birds, chiefly young of the year, were abundant. Crowds of them flew up ahead of us, including Juncos, Siskins, Cassia Purple Finches, and Chipping Sparrows. Also saw 2 Orange-crowned (or Lutescent) Warblers in fresh new immature plumage, some Audubon Warblers, Western Tanagers, and lots of Crossbills. The latter were in scattering companies in hemlocks around seepage meadows, "chupping"(?) much. Also, I saw a sequestered pair in the top of a small hemlock. The [male sign] singing protractedly, a song reminding me of a green backed goldfinch in variableness but much sharper noted; not so sadly melodious, still pleasant to the human ear.

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Collector: Grinnell - 1925 Location: San Jose, 2500 ft., lat. 31° Date: Oct. 22 Page Number: 2601

My traps this morning, rained on, brot only one blue pelaged, young (male sign), Peromyscus manipulatus under a grease-wood clump (Adenostoma fasciculatum).

6583 Sceloporus Under rock. 6584 Cnemidophorus Dug out of ground in making barbecue pit. 6585 Nyctinomus (male sign) 93 x 32 x 8 x 14. Shot at late last dusk last night flying rather high north over open ground paralleling willows. 6586 Mudhen (female sign) alone, at side of creek in willow bellow the ranch. 6587 Brewer Sparrow (male sign) 11.9g. Shot from willow, near water; was preening. 6588 Marsh Wren (male sign) im. 11.9g. Shot from sawgrass among willows near shallow water in marshy place; two others noted.

There was a flock of Chipping Sparrows in the ranch yard this morning, a dozen or so. Presently a Sharp-shinned Hawk dashed in among them. I saw a Red-breasted Sapsucker in a cottonwood. Trees here which are punctured one willow, cottonwood and the deciduous orchard trees, pear & apple. Heard a Yellowthroat in a semi-aquatic tangle where the creek seeps out of the sand; for there is no water in the stream course for a long way above the ranch, at least running on the surface. Heard two Tanagers in the willow-bottom early in the morning. There are about 6 English Sparrows around the ranch, staying around the cottonwoods above the corrals and sheds, in which trees there are mistletoe clumps; also in and around a stock of fodder corn nearby. There are a few Linnets about the ranch, and very many Intermediate Sparrows.