FIeld notes, v1514
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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.