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W.N. Francis
1964
99.
California Quail
Dec.14. Strawberry Canyon, Alameda Co.
1630. Took 3 birds in trap #2:
* A? 18363 18368
* ? 58006,
1655. Flushed birds in the Behavior
lab, pen from roosts when I re-
installed hypothermograph. Both
D-4 and E-9 roosts were in use,
more in E-9; only the crippled
? (yellow) identified, roosting in
D4.
Dec.27. Counted 11 birds in Behavior
lab. pen at 1235: 3 in E-10, incl.
Green ?; 8 in A-10, incl. almost all
the ?s. 1245 all birds walked over
to E7 and E8, then at 1250 began
to forage into the center of this pen.
1252 As a large plane passed
over, 5 birds ran to cover in D-4
and 6 to brush pile in D-9 a few
seconds later; then all assembled
in E-10.