Field notes, v1752
Page 315
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J. Booth 1986 journal 73. Sacheen, cont'd May 4 old yellow pine (Jeffrey?) trunk. Here also were mt chickadee, y.r. warbler, juncos, fox sparrow, robin, western tanager, evening grosbeak, pine siskin, bluebird (sp?), red-tailed hawk, Steller's Jay, and an unidentified bird, brown with a white rufous tail, about the size of a mountain quail, giving a "ka-ka- ka" sound after flushing and flying a few feet -- was it a woodcock or snipe? On the way out of the transite, just along 89 near the junction of roads, we saw a pair of Townsend's Solitaire. At the station - saw song sparrow also. Beaver sign was obvious, noted bear scat near stream at the transite. Joe Thornton later said they were common in the basin, but doubted the mountain lion story of yesterday. We took the birds along, (40, 387, 388) and took a route which was ercatic. The forest roads to Webber lake were closed as to about 3 mi in from 89. We took 49 S from Sierraville all the way from [illegible] to Auburn