Field notes on ornithology and oology collected and recorded during 1891-1895, v4290
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(Vincent and Ravenna). Passed Langus, and Newhall. Pretty country with oaks. Went through cut and San Fernando + camped 13mi abou La Angeles June 27. Passed L.A. and S. Gabriel R where we had lunch, then Duarte, Spadra, Pomma, Ontario and reached S.Cucamonga at 8: P.M. Rested way home in the dark - June 28. Home at 1:30 A.M. - Distances- Home - to Visbing 23. to Meath 15. To RockRk 12. Spenigs 16. Acton 8. Ravenna 4. Lang,9. Langus 11. N.Hall 3. L.A. 35. Reide 60. Total = 196. Meath to N.Hall = 63. (18/2 196) Altitude - Mill = 5450. Meath = 6800 ft. Vegetation - Lytle Creek - alt. 3100 ft.- Epilobium glaberrinum. Quern Lhan, Sycamor, Alder, Hemlock Abor, Phacelia-camp. Cardvacea-columb. Manganita - Nasvlium obtusom. Pinus Lambertina - Tolerable common about Agdusa - P - Fir.com. at summit. Green cedar, like that in Peris hills was com. from Shermanis to Languss Spenes Lake [illegible] Also a light colored-White-barked species was seen above Panel Spengis. Epithra nevaensis Yucca arborescens - First seen at Lake and then more abundantly till we got below Holmes, where it was abundant and 25ft. high. Oire oil at Vincent. O.cceata. Y. whippei. S. Bdo. Lake /at Little Rock Creek. Begins at Vincent and is scattering through the pass. Rare in S. Fernando Valley. Com. in Lower Swartout but distated near summit. Opuntia engelmannii - Not in passes, but abundant in S. Fernando Valley. O. bernardina Not seen eastnor north of Lang- where a little was seen. Abund in Fernando Valley, O. echinocarpa. Began near Rock Creek and became abundant below Holmes. Sometimes 5-ft. 01MATH high, very abundant for 2 miles below Vincent, when it died out, at Acton. O. basilaris. (?) A few clumps grew below Chydes in Lower Swartout. Reptiles - Phrynosoma blainvibii Little Rock Creek. Mammals.-