Field notes, v1539
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R.J. Raitt 1956 Journal 7 January 27 Martinez Canyon, Santa Rosa Mts., Riverside Co., Calif. Rabbit Peak, 4200 ft. After chasing a Scrub Jay which we heard we headed down the east-west canyon on [illegible] the head of which we had been working. After several hundred yards of rough descent with the same upper sonoran-type vegetation of the south slope and more open desert type on the north side, we came to a moist area with clumps of a vertical green perennial growing thickly on a sandy bottom and with a large, thick Lemon-ade Berry bush on the south side near the canyon bottom. Dr. Miller flushed a Scrub Jay out of the bush and it flew down the canyon calling. He shot a California thrasher in the same bush and shot one of two Wren-tits which were moving between the same bush and a scrub oak. [illegible] the elevation at this point was 3700 ft. I continued on down to another, similar moist area, chasing two Scrub Jays ahead of me but unable to catch them. At a northerly bend in the canyon, at 3600 ft, I shot an Oregon Junco (Eureka!) just as Dr. Miller caught up with me. We heard six Titmouse back up canyon and he went back and shot one of two, while I shot another one that had come up from below. Dr. Miller by passed me and shot a Brown Toucan at 3500 ft. I caught up with him at a point shortly farther down, and we found that we were in a canyon bearing too far east