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W.B. Davis
1935.
Castle Creek, 8 mi. S Oreana, Cwythe Co,
Idaho. May 27.
I took a young one in the Lower
Sonoran Life Zone just south of the
river bridge north of Brumman. The
river must be the northern limit
of their range in this state, but I
doubt very much that they go as
far east as Twin Falls.
Mr. Bachman showed us several
fossils of woods, including two nearly
perfect conifer cones. One looked a
good deal like the cone of a Sequoia
and the other a Pinus murrayana.
Both had been found in the near
vicinity. There were also Vertebrate remains.
This morning I went for a walk
around Oreana and found a single
lead colored Bushtit feeding off the
foliage of a Greasewood brush. I collected
it as my first record for this state.
The two fellows with me have both
seen the species before at both our
previous camps.
Oreana is located on a small
creek, Nort Creek, tributary to Castle Creek,
and about 10 miles south of Snake River.
The whole area is that of a typical
lake bed - probably that of the old
Idaho Formations. The mountains touched