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Journal
104.
J. Groth
1986
Tennessee Pass, elev. 10,400 ft., Eagle Co., Colorado
June
three type 5 birds and one type 2 bird (#3[illegible] 400 is the type 2), I had to shoot the two ?? in the flock with the .22 as it seemed I might not get them otherwise. Bird 399, (the type 5 ?) was first to be captured, and the ? #397 seemed to be most attached to him -- I shot her as she sat in the tree near him, calling.
I got good recordings of all three of the new captive ???? (#'s 396, 399, 400) and then prepared all 5 new birds as specimens.
The weather became increasingly cloudy and stormy, so that by noon it was intermittent rain, drizzle, and some pea-sized hail.
At about 1:30 pm a pair of type 5 birds flew in and were captured. The ? was caught first, then the ? sat in a low nearby spruce giving weak flight calls. I recorded her, then was going to shoot her, but she then flew to the net where her mate remained struggling. This pair was numbered 401 (the ?) and 402 (the ?).
After these birds were captured, the