Field notes: Eastern United States return trip through Canada and Northwest United States, San Diego trip,1916, and second Eastern United States trip "via northwest", v4546
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128 June 10 - Victoria also a display in some open top case. There is an extra large number of albino birds and mammals on display, a further evidence of the veneration in which these abnormalities are held. Two Mourning Doves from Vernon, B.C. does not look to me unusually dark in tone of coloration. Two specimens of "Geocidua geoma saurthi Grenfell", recorded, as so labelled. The door-yard bird of Victoria, now in full song, is the Nuttall's Sparrow - excepting, of course, the English Sparrows, which swarm in town. June 11 Spent the forenoon observing bird. Took "Uplands" car to suburbs of that name, and walked thence some