Field notes, v1313
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September 1949 Journal 183 Sept 8 Red Mtin, 5300ft., 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co. Calif. plus several Yellow Pine Chipmunks on the rocky slope of the ridge. Dropping into the basin I saw several Townsend Chipmunks in the open Jeffrey-Sugar-Pine forest. Came into an area of Ceanothus Brush - This habitat is composed mostly of Ceanothus cuneatus with scattered stands of Bitter Cherry (Prunus emarginata) young White Fir (Abies concolor) and Jeffrey Pine, and a brown berry Manzanita. Scattered twixt the area are individual plants of Service- berry ~~~~~~~~, Hazel (Coffrus roststrata) and Blue Elderberry (Sambucus glauca). Thx the Ceanothus well covers the ground there is a prostrate cow- of a Rose, Snow-berry (Symphocarpus sp?) and a Gooseberry (Ribes sp?). Wire-grass ___________________ covers open areas between stems of brush. In this habitat I have found a House Wren, at least one; two Talmie Warblers, heard a Spotted Towhee, saw two and collected 1 Orange- crowned Warbler, and have heard several Vermit Thrushes. A White-headed Woodpecker flew over head. Juncos are also in this habitat, and I finally collected a Tolmie Warbler here. I worked on to the rocky back bone of a ridge just S of here. Working up it I flushed a