Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Banks 1958 Journal Apr. 4. The weather is not very good again, still cool and very windy. Had a Neotoma in my trap line, caught at the mouth of a large hole at the top of the wall of the wash. In the cabin had 2 Peromyscus. Shot a roadrunner right away in my hunt, and later two Vireo bellii. In the afternoon, to fill up the time got a Vijayachus and a Hila Woodpecker. The roadrunner had been seen across the road from camp earlier, and when I shot it, it had 2 grasshoppers in its bill. Later saw another, probably its mate, right near the cabin. The Vireos were both singing low in willows. I walked down this road toward the river, saw Berwick Wren and Abbott Towhees in the brush along the road. The road has just been scraped through the Arrow weed, and the growth on either side is dense. Heard a Yellowthroat and a Song Sparrow in one place, and went into the brush but thought I saw them both, I couldn't get either. The night is extremely cold, but bright. Apr. 5. A beautiful day at last - the day we have to leave. Very bright and hot, just a few wisps of clouds. Had a Dipodomys in my trapline. All birds are active, and hawks are out for the first time. Saw Amphispiza bilineata for the