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Catie
Bloss
1974
Journal
White Mountain Research Station, Bishop,
Inyo Co., California.
June 21
Densely. I finally succeeded in catching
3, two of which were displaying on the
same perch, hence were perhaps less
way of predation. I walked into
the marsh bottom, and scared the 7
and 9 Marsh Hawks off their roost (or
nest). They circled and protested vocally
my presence. I saw an Eastern
Kingbird in the marsh bottom, larger
than the western, with white on the tail
tips, a conspicuous white throat and
welly. The "cheerfulst of birds of the
Inyo National Forest", like it or a
Rare Migrant here, so it can occur.
I did not see the red crown patch,
being 100 yds away and looking up t-
The bird. After returning I placed the
3 lizards and a Peromyscus in the newly
cleared cage of the herpetode. The snake-
I assume deliberately - pinned the
mouse to the corner of the enclosure and
killed it by "construction" using the container
wall as a lever. Every side-blotched lizard
hopped up at and hit the wire mouse, so this
morning I used a very sensitive delicate
surgical thread noose, which was about the only