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Behle
1934.
Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada
Sept. 4, 1934.
2/6
Yesterday morning left Berkeley with Dr. Findale
in his Chevrolet. Started about 8:00 arriving
here 8 ½ hours later without mishap. Little
attention paid to birds along the way.
Stopped at Star Auto Camp.
Arose at 5:00 AM after a sleepless night.
Drove out on highway to Susanville. When
6 miles out of town in a NW direction
a flock of [illegible] Tarbs
was seen. Findale walked over
to the west side of the road, I took
the opposite side. After about 20 minutes
we returned to the car for ammunition.
My "catch" was 6 birds, his 2. I mention
this because on the west side of the road
the vegetation was higher and thicker
and the birds fewer while on the lower
east side the birds were abundant and
little high vegetation was present. All
together we secured 15 horned larks of
all ages and both sexes. Adult ♂♂
of my diagnosis if correct were the
fewest of those shot. Here, as with the birds
at Faberiv and the Warner Valley certain
of the ♂♂ have a large amount of
yellow on the throat and chest while
others lack this yellow almost entirely.
From previously collected birds I have
arrived at the conclusion that the birds