| S3 Page 67Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Colnett, Sat. 31 degrees
Date: October 28, 1925
?Page Number: 2609
on agave hillsides, where they live in closest association with the
intermedia wood rats.
6643 Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher (female sign) ad. 5.8g. Shot in
artemesia californica (?) bush.
6644 Western Gnatcatcher (female sign) ad. 5.6g. Shot in sumach bush.
Barometer tonight 29.85 inches; warm, Unknown 1; high fog all day. One
perspires too freely for comfort. 7 p.m. - Writing by light of of burning agaves
- dead ones, of which there are many on the hillside above our camp. Just went
the rounds of my traps by flash light - one Perognathus and one Peromyscus,
only, so far. Had re-set Dipodomys traps at fresh burrows, but untouched; maybe
these rats do not come out so early, altho it was quite dark by 5:30. Saw a Black
Phoebe late this evening. The Western Gnatcatcher taken is the only one of that
species so far noted here. The Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher is fairly common, but I
find them hard to see by reason of their dark colors, much harder than the other
species. The black-tails keep nearer the ground, among the dark stems in the thick
brush-clumps. They have two kinds of notes, the faint nasal mew, and a louder,
repeated che-che-che-che; so I was right (p. 2593).
Oct. 29
Discarded: Peromyscus m. gambeli, (female sign) (4 Unknown 2.), 2 small
blue-pelages males, all under composite bushes out on bottomland.
6645 Perognathus arenarius ‘(female symbol) 9.7g. 142 x 71 x 20 x 5.
Same trap as yesterday’s.
6646 Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher ‘(female symbol) 5.8g. Shot in Rhus laurina bush. | S3 Page 67Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Colnett, Sat. 31 degrees
Date: October 28, 1925
?Page Number: 2609
on agave hillsides, where they live in closest association with the
intermedia wood rats.
6643 Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher (female sign) ad. 5.8g. Shot in
artemesia californica (?) bush.
6644 Western Gnatcatcher (female sign) ad. 5.6g. Shot in sumach bush.
Barometer tonight 29.85 inches; warm, Unknown 1; high fog all day. One
perspires too freely for comfort. 7 p.m. - Writing by light of of burning agaves
- dead ones, of which there are many on the hillside above our camp. Just went
the rounds of my traps by flash light - one Perognathus and one Peromyscus,
only, so far. Had re-set Dipodomys traps at fresh burrows, but untouched; maybe
these rats do not come out so early, altho it was quite dark by 5:30. Saw a Black
Phoebe late this evening. The Western Gnatcatcher taken is the only one of that
species so far noted here. The Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher is fairly common, but I
find them hard to see by reason of their dark colors, much harder than the other
species. The black-tails keep nearer the ground, among the dark stems in the thick
brush-clumps. They have two kinds of notes, the faint nasal mew, and a louder,
repeated che-che-che-che; so I was right (p. 2593).
Oct. 29
Discarded: Peromyscus m. gambeli, (female sign) (4 Unknown 2.), 2 small
blue-pelages males, all under composite bushes out on bottomland.
6645 Perognathus arenarius ‘(female symbol) 9.7g. 142 x 71 x 20 x 5.
Same trap as yesterday’s.
6646 Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher ‘(female symbol) 5.8g. Shot in Rhus laurina bush. |