Field notes, v1502
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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