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Transcription
J. Crowley
1941
2
Journal
May 27 Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino Co., Calif.
about ½ mile east of the ocean; past a grassy
slope, in a grove of pine trees (Bishop pine).
Along the margins of the pine grove were
heavy bushes and dense grass. While
walking westward up the slope from
our old road where our first traps
were, I captured a miniature Syla
- clean, bright green, 30 mm. long -
which was struggling through the grass
of the middle of the meadow. He set the
rest of our mouse traps and 2 more of
the rat traps in the pine grove. Here
I saw another of the green frogs; this
one evidently an adult, hopping in a
very fashion from blade of grass to
blade of grass. He saw the sunset
from our hilltop - a red-sky-at-
night which forecast a pleasant to -
morrow. Since May 23, weather has
been overcast. On night of May 25, heavy
rains broke the bad weather and faint
beams of sunshine filtered through a
blue-gray sky on May 26. May 27's noon
was clear, cool and sunny. He collected our
traps - 1g Wild Rat, 10 C. mysos maniculatus, 1
Sorex pacificus; 4 mouse traps & 1 rat spring