Field notes, v545
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M. Boyers 1932 1/2 mi. E. Miramonte, 3500ft., Fresno Co., Calif. 68 December 19, 1932 another Thrasher. The location where we set the traps today was typically Upper Sonorah, with open hillsides bordered by brush patches of Buckeye, Manzanita, and Madrone, as well as scatterings of Oak (Blacks and a small leafed Oak). Along the creek there Willows, Wild Black- berry and Laurel in its shaded, wetter parts. The brush is more open here than at the other locations where we have been hunting. December 20, 1932 Up at 6:20 and had breakfast, them went 3 mi. W. of Miramonte, 2900 ft., to our trapping location. A heavy frost covered everything and it was extremely cold. No Rats or Gophers were caught, but one Peromyscus maniculatus was in one of my mouse traps. We spent that noon hunting birds, with no seeing any rabbits. I secured a Fox Sparrow in the Manzanita brush on an east facing slope as it scurried in the dirt and leaves on the ground. Then I shot a Hairy Woodpecker in a