Field notes taken for Zoology S125, v547
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Brode 1934 July 3 continued It was found on a ledge under an overhanging rock. I again noted the "streaming" of the magpies and shot one. I also shot a mourning dove. I saw a number of robins, flickers, and a blue heron. July 4 gathered up the traps set out last night on the south side of the river. There were eight specimens in the traps, all Peromyscus maniculatus. The ranged in location from the upper irrigation canal on the south side of the W. Walker River down to and on grassy plots among the cottonwood by the river. Near the pond to the east of camp (but on the south side of stream) I noted mole workings but they were not recent. I shot at a flicker but missed both when he was on the ground and when he was in the tree. Saw a number of doves robins and at some distance black birds. Shot a bluebird on a bush west near the upper irrigation canal. I shot at a robin it wheeled about and hung head down from the branch for a few seconds and then dropped