Field notes, v510
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Behle 1933. Mad River Ford, 2700 ft. above Rush, Trinity Co. Calif. May 24. of junco, a pair of robins, a pair of Flicker and lown down in the distance a canadaian muthatch was heard. a little previously two Turkey vultures had been seen and three black-tail deer all probably & some no horn buds were in evidence . They were about a 100 yards away and slowly ran away. At 5400 ft. the slope opened up considerably into open areas with growth of chaparral scattered about. This was probably the beginning of Canadian zone. Two thin lines of white fir extended further up. Practically all of this stretch from here to the top was covered with banks of snow some feet deep and covering for the most part the bushes ! There were patches of chinquapin, a form of ceanthus called snow brush, a variety of manzanita and some patches of what I thought were Birch and Alder in the bottoms of shallow drains. Also