Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Banks 1958 Journal 41. July 9 Kaiser Pass Meadow, 9100 ft., Fresno Co., Calif. - Collected 11 White-crows and a Pine Grosbeak. also saw a mouse (briefly), Chickadee, and heard & saw movings of Ground Squirrels. Back to camp, shined till dark. July 10 Arrived here about 7. Poor hunting today, Got 7 White-crows, a Ground Squirrel (zp?) and a Cassin Finch. Added birds: Red- breasted Mithatch (?) and Vilhaison Sapsuckers These are Hummingbirds but just whiz by. Saw mice movng thru grass a couple tries. Appear to be Microtus. 8mi, 5 Kaiser Pass, 8500 ft., Fresno Co., Calif. - Shined until about 5:30, then wrote notes. Flies are very bad here in camp, few mosquitoes. Mosquitoes at the meadow are nearly unbearable - never seen or been bitten by so many. No birds here in camp that aren't above, but I haven't had much chance to look around. There is a large nest in a tree close by, but have not seen anything around it. Went walking about dusk to see if I could get anything. Saw some Lates, but couldn't set one. July 11 Up at 5 a.m., started out at 6. Only got 3 White - crows. Wanded about a good deal, on the E side of the road, up to perhaps 9000 ft. Saw deer. These hills are honeycombed with the