Field notes, v567
Page 49
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Cogswell 1949 Journal 57 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Aug. 11 (cont.) On the way back from getting the animals from the traps I found the young cowbird & collected it (see species acct.). Spent the rest of the day skinning. Additional bird species seen at camp were: Nycticorax nycticorax - 3 flew over about 7:30 p.m. Ixoreus naevius -1-(seen by Sullivan). Basslerina amoena - 14 Zenaidura macroura - 1 (flew over camp at dusk) leaded up stream) Aug. 12 In 53 traps which remained on same line as last night, the following were caught this morning: Sorex knowbridgi - 1 Peromyscus maniculatus - 4 Zapus trinotatus - 5 Sorex pacificus - 1 } see species accounts After checking the traps & picking them up, I went on up the 20 ft. wide grassy strip (old logging road) which leads on, tho more overgrown, & parallels a creek which seems to be Ditler creek from the map. After a short distance along it, by a turn to the left (NW ?) the creek is crossed & a low ridge rounded (thru a deep road cut) & a new logging road reached which runs on up the hillside into solid Redwood forest. I walked perhaps a 1/2 mile up the slope (both old & new roads). The vegetation from near my trap-line to the