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Cogswell
1949
Junco oreganus
Aug. 14-26 French Camp, 3100 ft., and vicinity of Schoolhouse & Coyote Peaks, 2300-3180 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.
Abundant, especially along the borders of forest (of any type) and the open ('bell') prairies or brushland. Many fledglings were being fed by adults all through this period. No songs were heard. No Juncos were observed on open grassland [illegible] of the larger prairies, nor in the deepest forest.
Aug. 27, 29- 3 mi. N Willon Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.
2 or more, heard at the borders of the maple-alder forest (in Douglas Fir, etc.) of Loon Cr. Canyon.
Sep 1, 3, 4 Brennan Mtn., 3400-3800 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.
Several were noted on each date, both in the [illegible] upper, more open Douglas Fir belt and in the open pine forest of the summit area. One was collected in the former habitat on the 1st.
Sep. 6
8:25am
Red Mtn., 5300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif.- I collected 1 of a flock of 10+ which were feeding on open, rocky slope on top of a ridge on which the vegetation is of scattered small Jeffrey Pines, Incense Cedars and much low Canothus cuneatus and some low scrubby Quercus garryana, var. braceri.
The birds were stretching in the sparse leaf litter in slight hollows among the broken-up rock surface.
Sep. 6-10 Similarly sized flocks were common in many such areas along the Red Mtn.-Bucabella Mtn. ridge. Adult Fs were very scarce. A few feeble songs were heard on 10th.