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Behle
1933
Horse Mt. 4700 - 5000 ft. Humboldt Co. Calif.
June 3-
115 ♂ Chipping Sparrow . 12.3g Testes O Taken
from top of Douglas Spruce at 4000ft.
116 ♂ Western Robin 87.5g Testes O
4000 ft. From gary Oak.
117 ♀ Motoma f. fascicles 368-174-41-26 185.1g
No embryo - near nest in Huckleberry Oak
+ rocks - 4650 ft.
Trap line this afternoon yielded
one ♂ Eutamias townsendi ochrogyna
at base of Douglas Spruce in
heavy timber. and one ♂ P. m. rubida
under overhanging rock where the
ground was damp . 10 ft. from
water.
Walked down to open country
below camp this morning. Noticed
two grouse eggs laying in the
middle of the road where a newly
fallen Douglas spruce had once
been before being cut away. Search
revealed under the limbs of the portion
of the tree that had been dragged
to one side one more intact egg
and one broken. Undoubtedly the
grouse had started to lay her eggs
under this fallen tree but the nest and
contents were semi-destroyed when the
tree was cut to clear the road. We had