Field notes, v1539
Page 111
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R.J.Raith 1956 Journal 9 Jarbridge area, Elko Co., Nevada June 4 Dr. Miller went up the Coon Creek Road and I went up the main Jarbridge Canyon Road. I walked up for about 1 1/2 miles and then turned off to ascend the south shoulder of Gorge Gulch. I hiked up this ridge to about the 8000-foot level then dropped down through a fir forest to the bottom of the gulch in which cascades a small but rapid and noisy stream. I descended the stream to the road and walked back to the truck, arriving there at about 11:50. Saw a Tolmie Warbler on the way up the gulch in streamside willows. All the way up the shoulder I was in Mountain Mahogany and saw numerous Chipping Sparrows in it, one of which I collected. Also common in this area were Wright Flycatchers. At the uppermost limit of my penetration there is a level (or relatively level) stretch covered largely by sage but containing several large pines (limber pine) and some firs. Just below this area in sparser firs + low shrubs I shot a Green-tailed Towhee. On the high level I saw a Clark Nutcracker, a small Cooper Hawk, several Cassin Purple Finches and Pine Siskins, a Red-shafted Flicker, and several Chipping Sparrows. After leaving the level ridge top I descended the very steep south slope of Gorge Gulch through a narrow but thick singing fir grove. Here I saw several Ruby-crowned Kinglets