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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