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B.Z. CARR
1956
JOURNAL
(APRIL 2) BARKLEY HILLS NEAR U.C. BOTANICAL GARDENS BORDERS PROMONTORY PARK.
FEB 5 (CONT) WITH ROBERT BONER & SILVER
(BROKEN [illegible] WITH MORE OR LESS
UNROOTED MOLARS) MAY BE NEOCOMA?
TURNED OVER BOARDS & OLD LOGS
IN EVERGREEN GROVE (NOT PINES) AND,
FOUND 10" SKULL OF SLOW WORM AND OCRES",
MOST OF THEM UNDER LOGS SEEMED
TO BE BETWEEN BARK AND WOOD
RATHER THAN BETWEEN BARK AND
GROUND.
CROSSING PAVING TO BOTANICAL
GARDENS I FOUND A RABBIT
SKELETON UNDER A BUSH ON DRY
HILLSIDE BUT, AS SILVER WAS FALLING
APART, DID NOT COLLECT IT. IN
CLUMP OF PINES [illegible] EAST CORNER
OF BOTANICAL GARDENS FENCE I
GOT A GOOD LOOK AT A"WILLIAMSON'S
SPARROW", DR. MURRAY'S LIST OF
BIRDS OF BARK HILLS'49 DID NOT LIST
IT, SO I SPENT 20 MINUTES OR
SO LOOKING AT IT WITH 10X GLASSES
FROM BACK, SIDE & FROM ABOVE
BY CLIMBING UP THE VERY STEEP
SLOPE. THE UNDERSIDE DID NOT
SHOW UP YELLOW AS IN PETERSON'S
GUIDE BUT THEN I COULD SEE
MUCH OF BELLY AS THE BIRD WORKED
UP THE TREES. NO CALL EITHER.
I KNOW THE YELLOW-BELLIED SPARROW
FROM BACK EAST AND THIS DEFINITELY
WAS NOT OF THAT SPECIES. ALTHO
LATER IN THE SAME GROVE I DID SEE,