Field notes, v576
Page 231
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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