Field notes, v574
Page 55
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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