Field notes, v1471
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Marshall, 1942 General Area Los Escrimiles March 17 Left 3am & owl hunted in cloud forest - toward morning heard calls hoo-hoo, hooo blast 3 syll. Strix occidentalis from canyon to north. Windy + foggy (driving clouds) as got light - chorus T. infuscatus & T. plebejus & Myadestes unicolor in cloud forest - also heard Penelopeia from all side for a short time. Chorus slack'd off as got light & went to top south peak. In tall brush here at ridge & edge cloud forest got, by squeaking & shooting at "flockeings" in brush a Bussemann (brush well in cloud forest), Atlapetes, Henicopeira. On saddle between n + s peaks - driving fog - many birds - clear here- grass & bunchgrass, few trees much rich lupinal brush. Zonotrichia's singing, that heard & saw Clipping Sparrow, both turdus singing T. infuscatus right out in brush, T. plebejus 'solitary small' in trees - much calling & chirp. 2 pairs Blue & White Mockers squeaked up - ST's singing. Catherma acconiturio(?) in brush = Myadestes obsoletus? 1 Calif. Woodpecker climbing up stump. Coll. Diglossa & saw many birds (Elaria, Chlerosprigis, Wilsonia, Robing) along edge brush & cloud forest. Shot-but didn't get Empidonax durvighi(?) in cloud forest on way back. P.M.: Catharus occidentalis active along ridge edgeforest back camp & in brush of cloud forest - also in open calling ~ ityla. Hildebrand camped out & said he heard at about 2am. a pt. owl in 1st cloud forest 6 hoots -, ---, - quality of Spotted Owl.