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Arnold
1937 Primitive Area, Strawberry Canyon,
Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif.
Dec. 17 At 12:50 I am on the bridge at the
east fence where the creek goes
through. An adult Red-tailed Hawk
just lit on a fence post just
north of here at about the same place
where I found the Rabbit's foot. It
stood there preening for afew
minutes and then flew outside of
the area. I heard a Vigors Bewick's
Wren in the brush around the bottom
of the Bay Tree about 50 yards north.
There is a Wren-tit behind me in the
rushes. At 11:02 a Fox Sparrow and
a Song Sparrow were seen 100 yards
west of the east fence.
I had my catch-alive mouse
traps set at intervals of approx
every thirty feet — starting at
the west fence and parallelling the
lower path. — As shown on the
adjoining map. I was at sea as
[illegible] to which system to use
for marking closely related species.
Dr Hall thinks it would be better
to have no closely related species
with duplicate numbers. This is
not the way that I marked them
at first but is the manner I