Field notes, v1470
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Marshall, 1939 General Comment -Dizzie Walla Walla Co., Wash July 26 (cont.) Andulbon Warbler - a few Heard a Papoucher. The small passerines were going about in large flocks - moving slowly thru the woods & high in the conifers. These flocks included Chestnut-backed & Mt. Chickadees & golden-crowned Kinglets in about equal numbers. Their abundance was probably due to the presence of many 'birds of the year'. Junco's & Chugyys were around the openings in the dense forest. Transitive Canadian 3. No response to Prying owl call. Stayantule Spring, 5150 ft., Blue Mt., Columbia Co., Wash. Clear, calm, cold. Camp in July 26, 1939 high, S-facing valley, very heavily forested with a dense subalpine forest of Larch, spruce, fir, lodgepole pine. Trees not large except for occasional towering red-fir, fragmented by crossbills. This was boreal zone - above yellow pine & Doug fir - open forests of which had been seen on exposed slopes farther north. Probably Canadian, or else Canadian + Hudsonian. No large clearing, few broad-leaved trees, : not enough "edges" where birds