Field notes, v567
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Coxwell 1949 Journal 81 Aug.23 (cont.) To investigate; but found the jays (fully 15 to 20 of them) dispersing by that time. I collected 2 of them (= nos. 54, 55) as they came into the plum trees of a small orchard near the forest border. Also collected one Band-tailed Pigeon (= # 56) in this area. Other species noted here were Hyloicula guttata, Sporornis tolmiei, Zales sparveria, Parus rufescens. Yesterday I failed to mention seeing a Carpodacus purpureus feeding young in the plum orchard. Going S. from these two old barns, I worked around the area where the Lazuli Buntings were found yesterday & thru some low brush forms of many basal sprouts of Savary oak from 6-8 ft. high dead trees (burned??), with some admixture of Rubus grossifolius, Ribes sp., a Symphorocarpus sp. Collected a pair of Spotted Towhees (= #537, 58) in this & heard a "tulp" call of Dendroica sp? (sether occidentalis, townsendi, or nigrescens) but could not locate the bird. In taller, but still bushy Savary oaks below the road I found an immature Vermivora celata, 1 Hirundo solitaria, and several Juncos. I collected a Dendrocopus pubescens (#59) from a 20 ft. high Savary Oak. Further SW of the peak, near Schoolhouse Pasture Rock, I found 4 Savannah Sparrows in low, mostly mowed grass. 2 Mourning Doves were seen here as I drove past last night about 6:40 p.m.