Field notes, v576
Page 219
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(anti) Blei 1974 Journal White Mountain Research Station, Bishop, by California. June 5 looking weight rapidly, which contradicts Faunt's (1941, 1946) statements and suggests he may have been misidentifying some of the animals he called D. ordii. Animal life seen to date: starlings around the field station - holual, least scree, murm raftut bush with saltced cottonwoods. Lepus californicus come at night to greze on the louno at the station; Western Kingbirds are very abundant and vocal in; The Cottonwoods at the station; I have seen 1 Magpie R. of Bishop, some ORiies at the station, probably Ballock's Oriole, a pair of marsh Hawks were seen over the rives area (rn) west of the station, and an semdefied Hawk roots around the station, brown and white bared I've not seen it with my binoculars yet. June 6. This morning the Thermograph showed a steady Temperature throughout the night. At yesterday's weighing, the animals showed less of a weight loss, some on othersex even gained some; so the reduction in temperature seems to have had an effect. Perhaps now I'll be able