Field notes, v1670
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Strong, 1921. Hazelton, B.S., Oct. 954 ft. 6b. first adult bird was beautifully marked with crest ruffs and broad tail, but the second was very plainly marked, light colored around head and neck with no noticeable ruffs. The latter stopped down the road about thirty or forty feet before she sneaked off in the brush and began to mew like a cat. I saw approximately a dozen young in each cover. Farther on I shot a Gunn & Snowshoe Rabbit, altogether I saw two Gunn rabbits and about five young ones, ranging in size from a Red Squirrel to a Brush-rabbit. Coming home I heard a lot of little birds freezing around a burned stump, on coming up found about four Juncoes and a couple of Chipping Sparrows wildly excited about a little Junco under a root, which was flapping and seemed to be caught. Suspecting a weasel I went around and found a small garter snake trying to swallow the little bird, he had its posterior down his throat and was working on the rest. The parent birds flew down with a few wishes of his head but seemed helpless. I backed off and shot him, killing the little bird also, and had some trouble disengaging the two. Farther on I shot a Thriller, a typical Golden-shafted except for dark reddish cheek patches. Spent all afternoon putting up our two rabbits, as Mr. Swarth got one this morning.