Field notes, v1724
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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,