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W.J. FRANCIS
1963
March 3. Strawberry Canyon, Alameda Co.
under the side of the trap. This
was an adult bird, and was
released, and trap left open
until new smaller mesh trap
can be installed.
1507 Left Berkeley (home) for
Hastings Reservation, mileage 35575.
Arrived Hastings about 1830, mileage
35719, elapsed distance 144 miles.
March 4. Hastings Reservation Carmel
Valley, Monterey County, Calif.
0630 Weather, Clear, calm. Light
frost over grass in bottom of valley,
not under shelter of trees.
Td 31° Tw 27° RH 58%(?), at 4'.
Looking for quail in vicinity of
houses. 0728 Sunshine now covering
completely east facing slopes. Psychron
reading at 4" in frosty field 32°24°;
RH 24%o, at 4' Td 24° Tw
32° (wick frozen). At 4'1' Td 30°.
Under nearest Chamise on hillside
32°. Edge of brush patch where
quail were flushed earlier 31.5° F.
Completed readings 0740.
0940 Completed reconnaissance
of slope south of Greenfield Road where