Field notes, v1663
Page 243
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Pawstorn 1944 Journal, 8/11 Aug 7. 1 mi SE San Benito Pkale, 4400', San Benito Co., Calif. I waited there with walnut. Also set 10 museum specials along the disintegrated serpentine to the north of camp. These were baited with oatmeal. After supper went south along the road a way of owls or poorwills but saw or heard none. Did see several bats - large (Eptesius?) & small (mystio? or pipistillus). Retired about 9 pm. Aug 8. Arose 5:45 am had breakfast & ran trap lines - one by stream yielded 6 Peromyscus maniculatus & one Sorex. The line on the hill yielded one Dipodomys elephantinus. Skinned mammals & cooper hawks (collected down the stream while setting house traps the night before) and a white breasted nuthatch which drifted into camp while I was sleeping. In the afternoon ~~ took gun & two sets of gopher traps down the stream. Made two gopher sets in fresh diggings near upper end of trap line & continued down stream. Bathed in a small hole in the stream by a small meadow (closely grazed) & continued down stream for half a mile or so saw a dozen or more hummers & collected a Wilson Warbler & linsos and several plants including Parnassia, Castilleja, Salix, grass, Zygadenus & Broudea visoides (or something similar) The latter growing under pines at camp & the others by the stream in wet places.