Field notes, v1670
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Strong 125 py) 165 stream, cottonwoods, willows and aspens, while above them were the usual pines. Collected here for a short time. Birds: at San Jose. (May 22, 1925) Hooded Oriole, Black-headed Grosbeak, Ark. Kingbird, Nuttall Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Pygmy Nuthatch, Eave Swallow, Western and San Lucas Flycatcher(?), Gray Flycatcher, Junco, Song Sparrow, Audubon Warbler, Bewick Wren, Western Tanager, Brewer Blackbird. Birds at San Jose -- (June 9, 1925) English Sparrow, Yellow breasted (Long tailed?) Chat, Yellow Warbler, Purple Martin. (Remains of one gray Screech Owl, and one large Sharpshin or small Cooper Hawk seen.) the "Oaks" May 23, 1925. Went up the mts. 4 pack mules, 4 riding mules, 2 horses, -- our two packers Melling (a Norwegian) and Manuelo Manrigues, a part Indian Mex. from around southern end of peninsula. Went up past big placer works at Socorro, then up to the Oaks, where we got out of the brush belt into the pines and grass meadows. Saw a flock of Flat-headed Jays, here. Had a good camp. Manuel went out for an hour and brought in a nice young buck -- apparently a two year old Blacktail. Skinned