Field notes, v1511
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Oct 1932 Bodfish, 2600 ft., Kern Co., Calif. Dec. 22, 1932 the long tail that was like a huge "bullet hawk". This was the only one he ever saw, The brothers told me that old evening in the Piute Mtns. They saw three Golden Eagles attacking a two year old buck. The eagles took turns at hitting the deer until they were driven off by the trappers. Told me that there were white-tailed jackrabbits high up in these mountains. The younger brother W.W. Ross said he called them the Southern Sierra Hare. Both recalled Walter P. Taylor who was here in 1911. I was told by F. Ross that the predatory animal men had told him that they had orders not to report more than 3 or 4 Foxes caught a year in the course of their control work and he knew that a great many more than this number were taken each year and not reported. Bodfish is located at the west end of a small valley about 5 miles long. In places there are small patches of Chrysothamnus, but most of it is grass land. The hill slopes are covered with small clumps of C. dumosa and Juniper but not thickly clothed. There are some Pigger Pines scattered about. At present there is brush everywhere but in