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Eves and Color Canyons, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles Co., California
Elevations: Eves Canyon 2500 feet; Color Canyon (800 feet)
April 7 Band-Tailed Pigeon
Hermit Thrush - singing? CC
(cont) Mourning Dove
American Robin
Grand Herons Oak
Wrentit
White-throated Swift-4/0, CC
California Thrasher
Anna's Hummingbird
Fluttois Vireo
Green Woodpecker
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nutlock's Woodpecker
Audubon's Warbler
Pacific Slope Flycatcher
Black-billed Cuckoo
Scout Jay
Reynolds-sided Towhee
Pine Titmouse
California Towhee
Bustit
Gray Sparrow
Dunck's Chen
N. (Billard's) Siskin
Harris Chen
Lesser Goldfinch
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Salt River southwest of Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona
April 8 I drove last night from Pomona, California to Goodyear, Arizona,
a west-side suburb of Phoenix, via Interstate 10. I slept for
a few hours on the frontage road adjacent to the freeway, awaiting first
light to complete my drive to the Salt River on Phoenix's southwest
side. Dr. Conrado Roe of the San Diego Natural History Museum had
suggested this as a favorable place to collect goldfinches. The river
between 91st Avenue and 115th Avenue, opposite the Glen Arrow Reser-
vation on the south bank, has developed a substantial riparian woodlands
in the last 10-15 years; kept going in dry times by effluent from
the Phoenix sewage treatment plant at 91st Avenue. I made calls at