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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