Field notes, v510
Page 485
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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