Field notes, v1502
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Murray 1948 12 Apr 12 Punta San Felipe, 50+ ft., Baja California. Black throated gray warbler - Saw one on ocotillo Plumbeous grcatcatcher - Saw one Verdin. - saw several, usually in washes costa humminbird - very common. Long billed curlew - 6 were on shore. Red-tailed hawk - Saw one flying Ash-throated flycatcher - Saw several. Started west from San Felipe over a fairly good road and traveled through an oblong shaped stretch of desert. It was bounded to the south and southwest by the Sierra San Felipe and to the Northeast by hills. The land was coarse and somewhat granitic, and bore rather heavy vegetation. There was much ocotillo and crosote, enelia, a few scrubby palo verdes, cardones, and many dried weeds. A few miles out we hit much ironwood and more palo verdes. Here too were frequent copals, often dead or sparsely leafed. The land became coarser, completely granite, and seemed to be a big flat wash from the mountains close by. We camped 9 miles from San Felipe in what was distinctly a big wash, relatively heavily vegetated and several hundred yards from the base of the mountains. We went out for a look at the landscape, but saw