Field notes, v545
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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