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1938
July 11
19 mi. S and 5 mi. E Lostine, 7000 ft., Wallowa Co., Oregon
Yesterday proved to be white crown sparrows. The creek above the lake is deep and wide but can be forded where it widens out in sand bars. There are areas of lush willow along the river and numerous ponds in them and adjacent to them. Found the only yellow leg frogs in this area about these ponds. Hyla ae present here also. Perhaps as extremely common and noisy in this valley, the throck slides are rather bushy. We hunted white crown sparrows most of the morning. Made pond drags in several of the more stagnant pools which looked semipermanent. Cladocera were present but no copepods as far as I could discover. Later dipped out white Copepod frons at a time from a small puddle hidden and shaded beneath a large boulder (400-500 lbs.) This rock lay above high water mark of the Lost Lake but in ground which is probably always damp. There were other animals present, some small sand colored copepods which I attempted to collect but may have missed, and some insect larvae. Saw no animals we had not seen yesterday with the exception of a Golden Orange-crowned Warbler. Spent