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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