Field notes, v567
Page 595
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Coquell 1949 Eutamias sonomae 2 Red Mt, 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Cal. Sep.6 (cont) dense brush as they do when alarmed. I collected one from top of a 3 ft. high branch of a fallen log in midst of a dense thicket of Ceanothus cuneatus on a S-facing slope with a few scattered Pines (jeffreyi x ponderosa). 3+ other chipmunks, scolding me with similar calls, ran into the brush from near the log. 2 of them came up on a rock to scold me as I started writing this. Sep.8 (9:10am) S. Dubabella Mt., 5600 ft., 12+ mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co. Cal. along the trail in the area of low shrubs just above the upper border of white fir -- Jeffrey pine forest on a N-facing slope I [illegible] 3 species of chipmunks scolding me at once. although I cannot see this species, its extremely high pitched call, as described on Sep 3-4, is in sharp contrast to those of E. amoenus & E. townsendi (which see). This call is given in separate series of 8-12 staccato notes. Mellow "pook" notes heard also, but which species gave them I do not know Sep.9 (2 mi. N by W) Red Mt., 5300 ft., 14+ mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co. Cal. at 10:30 a.m., while I was writing notes on the Puffing owl observation, in an area of open Jeffrey Pine, In- cense cedar, and a few tawny oaks near an opening in the forest bordered by Ceanothus cordulatus. several of these chipmunks became active in the brush. They had been silent since soon after my shot at the owl, but soon one came up slope along a fallen cedar log just within the forest & sat on a branch of it calling a series