Field notes, v1536
Page 721
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Pitka 1947 Oct. 10 [mi:] E Wedderburn, 50 ft., Curry Co., Oregon. Bailey Ranch headquarters. One of them was collected. A lone individual was observed in the backyard of one of the cottages in Wedderburn. From the observations on the local occurrence of the scrub jay made by both Russell and myself, it appears that there is no difference in habitat relations, at this time of year between this population and that of the Berkeley hills. It is of interest that scrub jays here live among scattered Douglas firs and along the edges of Douglas fir timber, and they make use of these trees as look-outs. But in this respect, they may appear to differ from the Berkeley Hills population, in whose habitat there are no conifers; but areas around Berkeley where conifers have been planted, providing other features of the habitat are favorable, jays are present and make use of the conifers as those here do. My general impression is that the population here, for the month of October, is not as high as in the Berkeley Hills; yet the jays are regularly distributed and occur on most of the areas suitable habitat. Our collecting has yielded a majority of adult individuals, and it would appear that the reason for my impression about