Field notes, v1596
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Salt 1947 Journal Cammati Creek, 1450 ft., San Luis Obispo Co., Cal.f. Aug 30. One ♀, one ♂ Dipo, and a Peromyscus truei in traps. Stayed in flat by water tank for about an hour. Shot a Brown Towhee in good new plumage. Very few pin feathers or feathers with sheathed bases. Came back to camp. Shot a Sage Sparrow. Skurined until 2:00 P.M. Then I walked up through hills north-west of campsite searching for Spotted Towhees. I covered "Digger Pine valley floors" where saw Rank Sparrow flocks and a Prairie Falcon; up to Adenostoma in pure stands, then onto north facing manzanita-scrub oak covered hillsides; down into stream beds with sandy floors 2 feet wide; back through mixed manzanita, Adenostoma-Eriogorum on south facing slopes. Saw one Thrasher and neither heard nor saw Spotted Towhees. Went with Dehnal to water tank for swim. He Shot 2 ♂ Linnets, an immature linnet, and I shot a Nuthatch. Set traps in almost pure manzanita stand across road from camp.