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January
Palmer
1937
Jan 3 cont'd Ontario, S.B., Co., Calif. cont'd.
in the adobe soil of the backyard
and set a rat trap in the garage
where something had been eating stored
banana squashes.
Continued on to Ontario via Olin
and Santa Ana Cañon, turning off
the cañon road at the Rincón cutoff.
When this road crossed Chino Creek
I saw a Marsh Hawk in a grain
field trying to lift something from
the ground in its claws as it flew
up. It was unable to and flew
away without it. I stopped the car
and went over to investigate and found
a freshly killed Mudpheon, which I
brought home with me. This locality
= Chino Cr., 6 mi. SSE Chino, 600 ft.
Saw Bernardino Co., Calif. When I
skinned the bird I found several
shot in it; mostly in the muscles
and they appeared not have have
penetrated very far. The lumbrica
of the left wing was broken and
the bird was probably dead or
crippled when the hawk got it.