Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Monday
1948
109
Journal
June 11 La Laguna, b 2:00 H., Sierra de la Laguna, Baja Calif.
Saw one bathe in a shallow pool.
Spotted townees are abundant here and
are almost always to be seen in pairs-spend
a lot of time scratching vigorously in the
thick oak leaves covering the ground. Juncoes
are easily the most common birds, and very
tame as all the others noticeably are. (See sp. act.)
Also saw a vireo, probably solitury, some
robins, Calif woodpeckers, an Empidonax
flycatcher, a white-breasted nutbatch on
an oak by the stream. There were 3 bush
tits, and in the evening a flock of 15 or 20,
also a pair of plain titmice and a western
qnotcatcher. A red-tailed hawk soared
overhead along with some ravens and a
number of vultures. There was a
small group of violet-green swallows
flying first high above the hillside and later
out in the open.
Of reptiles have seen nothing more than a
Urosaurus microscutatus and a Streptosaurus
thalassina on a rock.
In the afternoon put out 45 Museum special
traps along the stream to the SE. This was
in a gradually inclined canyon and no longer
had running water, only elongated pools
with many dry gaps between. It was far