Field notes, v1516
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Loral Pearson 1969 Journal 5 Jul E 10 am's Yanap, 8,000ft, Deshina 20 July along it, sunny, pleasant temp. Saw about 8 condors, lots of doves of various sorts that I don't have sorted out yet; & vencejo andino, Pygchelidon cyaneaea, a fluke of small green parrots, 2 large parrots, 2 woodpeckers, lots of mockingbirds, several long-tails) blade birds (but anis), a ? torrent duck, several [illegible] Tyranus [illegible]. The hills above irrigation line were quite bare + rocky (yellowish rocks) for the longest time, and then shutly before where we stopped ceotus + Tilloukia's came in, + than shutly before we stopped, bushes. Here now the river are Scotch broom + other brushes, fig trees + others. On the slopes are some kind(s) of columns - bushy coetuses, picklepear in places, dead-looking + everydry bushes, agaves, + even a bit of tall grass, dry. I set 26 lge folding shamans with oatmeal + 7 snaps w oatmeal across a brushy slope with little rocky cover + than up a rocky slide where there was more agave + lge cactus +, up high some grass (tall +dry). Windy afternoon, but still evening. 21 July Wind down the conyon most of night, morning. In my traps: live - 1 Phylletis andium snap: 3 P. annius ( OPP identified). The snaps were at stations with live traps too, toward the end of the line where there was more rocks + lge cactus + agave. One live trap had us beat in it + had mouse droppings in it. I had found one place with a small pile of dry grass. Set up two mist nets (Blitz), one between shore