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M. Borges
1932
1/2 mile E. Mt. Tamonts 3500 ft, Fresno Co.
Calif.
December 19, 1932
The trap was set right next to the
beginnings of a Restona pub.
This one specimen was the only
one taken at this location.
On and I separated and hunted for
two hours, On getting a Plain Titmouse,
Spotted Towhee, Brown Towhee, Wren-tit,
and a Junco, also one Brush Rabbit.
Both of us saw a flock of about
120 Band-tailed Pigeons flying East
overhead.
I secured a Downy Woodpecker in
the top of a Black-oak along a creek
bottom that was lined with Calif. Laurel
and Willows. Shortly afterward I
secured a Bewick Wren and a Wren-tit
in a tangle of palley Buck-eye and
Manzaneta. The Wren-tit was accomp-
panied by a second, but it flew so
close while I was wrapping the first
up that I couldn't shoot it without
blowing it to pieces. I saw a Gray
Squirrel in the top of a tree, but
due to the denseness of the bush
between couldn't kill it with one
shot, and I didn't get a second.
I found a small stream-cut
gulley now dry, that had huge