Field notes, v574
Page 177
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Crowley 1941 Journal May 25 Cedar Grove S. Fork Kings R., 4600 ft. Fresno Co., Calif. bird with a warbler-like bill, larger than a Warbling Vireo, with a yellow-green head, grey green sides, pale yellow underparts and a patch of yellow under the tail, and two white wing bars was working on the ground at the end of a fallen log. It flew into an oak, when I came along the trail. A Wood Pewee from a point in an oak gave forth with a whit! peeur! Calif. Jays screamed and flew from treetop to treetops. Another pair of Junco was seen. A Warbling Vireo gave forth a whit! whit! from an oak. It fled off the under side of oak leaves in a little divide between the slopes of the mountain. Its song was Z Z V like Purple Finches - warble. A pair of Hairy Woodpeckers flew from Yellow to Sugar Pine. A (Sierra) Creeker worked up the trunk of a Yellow Pine. A Wood Pewee and Chickadees called. Hearing the snow, I saw a Grouse whip off the hillside into a shady ravine, with dense cedar and Ceanothus. A Hermit Warbler worked about the outer branches of a Jeffrey Pine, while a Western Tanager perched in the same tree, on a bare branch.