Field notes, v574
Page 169
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Crowley, 1942 Journal May 24 Cedar Grove S Fork Kings R., 4600 ft, Fresno Co. Calif. May 24, 1942 mountain to set traps for ground squirrels. Francis, Ida and Marie skinned the animals caught the preceding night while I wrote notes. At 11:05 Ida and I walked to the bridge to ascertain the direction in which the roads went, in order to make a map. After lunch, Marie and I set out on a lizard hunt, taking the road toward Sentinel Camp, on the south side of Kings River. At 1:10 we started our bird observation with Coast Steller Jays. A Western Tanager flew into the top of a Sugar Pine uttering a peculiarly bell-like call. Three Gray Squirrels raced into a Libocedrus decurrens and one ran up into a tree across the road. A Chickaree drilled from a spot on the southern wall of the canyon. She started to hunt Sceloporus, when we heard a Chipping Sparrow off to the north. Marie left to hunt the Sparrow while I observed a Fly- catcher in a Dead Pine. This Flycatcher flew from an oak to a Sugar Pine, perched on a dead limb 50 - 60 ft. from ground. He bird had a grey back, white wing bars and underparts, lacked the eyering. Probably a Wood Pewee. I left the campgrounds and went westward.