Field notes, v1313

Gullion, Gordon W.
1949
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from CLIR https://archive.org/details/fieldnotesv131300gull
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Grillion, Gordon W. 1. Catalog, Humboldt and Trinity cos., Calif. 2. Journal, Humboldt and Trinity cos., Calif. 3. Species accounts, Humboldt and Trinity cos., Calif.
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Gullion, G. W. Catalog nos. 6-191 Aug. 9-Sept. 10, 1949 Humboldt and Trinity cos., Calif
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Catalogue July 1949 -1- Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. August 9, 1949 6 ♂ ad Perisoreus canadensis testes 2mm. 60.3gm. 7 ? imm Perisoreus canadensis 57.5 gm. 8 Thamnophilus sp? 9 ♂ imm Nuttallornis borealis 35.7 gm. →10 August 10, 1949 10 ♀ nursing Zapus trinotatus 252-47-33-18 28.7gm 11 ♀ no embryo. Sorex pacificus 141-59-17-11 10.0 gm. 12 [illegible] Rana [illegible] aurora testes 13 ♂ imm Phenicis melanoccephalus 2mm. 64.8gm this had 5 to 8 mm of fat covering abdomen and as much as 20mm about neck. → August 11, 1949 14 ♂ ad. Cyanocitta stelleri 4mm testes 137.5 gm 15 ♂ imm Sayornis nigricans 1mm testes 20.0gmno. → August 12, 1949 salamander sp? 16 larvae Ambystoma 17 larva. Ambystoma 18 larva. Ambystoma 19 larva. Ambystoma 20 ♂ ad. Zapus trinotatus 9mm testes 218-131-29-14 21.4 gm.
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Gullson 1949 Catalogue -2- Big Lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif. August 12, 1949 21 ♀ ad. Myotis yumanensis 80-35-9-14 6.3 gm. 22 ♂ Limnodromus griseus 5 mm Testes 97.2 gm. 23♀ Creuntes mausi 23.3gm. 24 Thamnophis ordinatus August 13, 1949 25 ♂ imm sparrow? Passerculus sandwichensis 17.2 16.9 gm. 26 Sorex pacificus 10.5gm. 27 Sorex townsendii 6.2 gm. August 14, 1949 26 ♀ ad. Zapus trinotatus 239-138-32-16 33.5gm 27 ♂ad. Sorex pacificus 7.mm Testes 163-61-16-10 15.9gms. 28 ♂ ad Sorex pacificus 5mm Testes 161-64-17-11 14.8gm. Big Lagoon, 250 feet Humboldt Co. Calif. 29 ad Dicamptodon ensatus
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Hullion 1949 Catalogue -3- Big Lagoon 250 feet Humboldt Co., Calif. August 14, 1949 30 larva Phycotriton sympicus 31 larva. Phycotriton " 32 larva. Phycotriton " 33 larva. Phycotriton " 34 larva. Phycotriton " 35 larva. Phycotriton ", 36 larva. Phycotriton ">> 37 larva Phycotriton Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. August 15, 1949. 38 ♂♀. Zapus trinotatus 235-140-34-16 6mm Testes - retracted 10.8 28.4 gms. 39 ♂ Zapus trinotatus 225-142-33-13 14.7 gms. 40 Rana aurora 41 ♀ imm. Melospiza melodia 24.5 gms. 42 ♂ 1mm Passerculus sandwichensis - fat - 18.4g.
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Mullion 1949 Catalogue - 4 - Big Lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif. August 15, 1949 43 ♀ ad. Passerculus sandwichensis fat 16.2g. 44 ♀ imm. Passerculus sandwichensis fat 15.5g. 45 Bufo boreas 46. ♀ Phalaropus fulicarius Very Thin 36.0 gm. 47. ♀ Totanus flavipes Thin 57.3 gm. 48. larva. Ambystoma gracile 49. ♀ Podilymbus podiceps 345.6gm. August 17, 1949 50 ♀ Croia Bairdii -fat- 38.1 gm. 51 ♀ Creuntes mauri -very fat- 28.5 gm. 52 ♂ Butorides virescens - [illegible] - 238.1gm. 53 ♀ Rallus limicola -fat- 94.9 gm. 54 ♀ Podilymbus podiceps -fat- 379.6 gm. 55 ♂ Podilymbus podiceps - fat - between 410 and 500 gms.
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Gullion 1949 Catalogue -5- Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. August 18, 1949 Thamnophis elegans 56 French Camp, 3100 feet. Humboldt Co., Calif. August 20, 1949 57 ♂ Sorex 114-52-13-7 4.0 gm. 58 ♂ Scirus douglasii Testes 20 mm. 325-118-51-27 221.1 gm. 59 ♂ min Sitta canadensis Black testes 11.1 gm. 4 mi. NNE, ±300 ft. of French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. 60 Bubo Boreas. 61 Bubo boreas. French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. August 21, 1949 62 Sceloporus occidentalis 63 Sceloporus occidentalis 64 ♂ min Hyleciclla guttata 20.8 gm. 65 ♂ min Sitta caelinenensis very small testes 19.1 gm. 66 ♀ min Vermivora celate 9.0 gm.
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Dullion 1949 Catalogue -6- French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. August 21, 1949 67 ♀ Balanosphypa formicivora 89.9 gms. -with many / mm follicles in ovary. 68 ♂ min Chamaea fasciata 1/2 mm testes. 14.7 gms. -w/ broad patch- August 22, 1949 69 ♂ Sphyrapicus varius 2 mm. testes 50.9 gms. 70 Cuneoces shiltonianus 71 Georhonotus coeruleus 72 Georhonotus coeruleus 73 ♀ Oreortyx picta 237.2 gm. 74 ♂ Oreortyx picta 6 mm testes 252.4 gm. 75 ? min Vires huttoni -some fat- 12.5 gm. 76 ♀ min Chamaea fasciata no follicles 13.5 gms. -with broad (?) patch. 77 ♂ min Chamaea fasciata L/L tester 2 1/2 mm. right tester 1 mm. 15.7 gm. -with broad patch. August 23, 1949 78 ♂ ad. Dendroica occidentalis -fat- /mm Tester 11.0 gms
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Kullon 1949 Catalogue -7- 3000 ft. French Camp Humboldt Co., Calif. August 23, 1949 79 ♂ ad. Tonia curirostra 2-5 mm Testes w/loaded patch. 29.39gms August 24, 1949 80 Terrhonatus coeruleus 81 Terrhonatus coeruleus 82 larva. Phycotriton olympicus 83 larva. Phycotriton " 84 larva. Dicamptodon ensatus 85 Sceloporus occidentalis Schoolhouse Peak, 2700 ft Humboldt Co., Calif. August 24, 1949 86 ♀ Dendragapus obscurus 1070.0 gms. w/ about 10 yellow bodies in large ovary. 1 mi. S of Coyote Peak, 3200 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- August 25, 1949 887 Aneides ferreus 88 Aneides ferreus
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July 1949 Catalogue -8- 1 mi. S. of Coyote Peak, 3200 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. August 25, 1949 89 Ensatina tail broken. 90 Ensatina -tail broken. 91 Ensatina 92 Ensatina -tail broken. 93 Ensatina -Tail broken. 94 Ensatina 95 Ensatina 96 Ensatina - Tail broken. 97 8 ad. Geanocitta stelleri 31/2 mm Testes 133.5 gm. Coyote Peak, 2800 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 98 ♀ nnnm Turdus migratorius 71.3 gm. French Camp 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 99 ♂ Bubio virginianus 6 mm Tester 1092.1 gm.
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July 1949 Catalogue - 9 - Aug 26 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. August 26, 1949 108 ♀ Bonasa umbellus 483.8 gms 101 larva. Dicamptodon 102 larva. Dicamptodon Aug. 27 3½ mi NE, Willow Creek, 2400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 103 Thamnophis sirtalis 574 mm. Maple Camp Spring, 3½ mi. NE Willow Creek, 2200 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. 104 ad. Rychotriton 105 larva Rychotriton white head. 106 larva Rychotriton white head 107 larva. Rychotriton 108 larva. Rychotriton 109 larva. Rychotriton 110 larva. Rychotriton
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September 1949 Catalogue. -10- Aug 27 3 1/2 mi. NE Willow Creek 2400 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. 111 Gerrhonotus 112 Gerrhonotus 113 Gerrhonotus 3 1/2 mi. N Willow Creek, 2000 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. 114 Sceloporus occidentalis 115 Sceloporus occidentalis 116 ? min Vires gilvus - some fat - 11.4 gms. 117 ♀ Dendrocopas pubescens 29.1 gms. 118 ♂ min Hylocichla guttata - fat - 24.0 gms. 3 1/2 mi. NE Willow Creek, 2200 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 119 ♂ min Cyanocitta stelleri 2 1/2 mm Teste 115.8 gms. Aug 28 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. 120 ♂ Myotis californicus 99-45-7-13 3.4gms 121 Bufo boreas Aug 29 Willow Creek, 400 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif.- 122 ♀ Accipiter striatus 161.7 gm. 123 ♂ ad Scteria virgens -fat- 2mm Teste 34.6gms 124 ♂ imm Chondestes grammacus 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 125 Rana boylii 126 Dicamptodon
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9 Jul/1949 Catalogue -11- Aug 32 Willow Creek, 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 127 ♀ imm. Geothlypis trichas -some fat- 10.1 gms. 128 ♂ ad. Apelocoma coerulescens 3½ mm Tête 103.6 gms 129 ? min Hylocichla mustelata 31.9 gms 130 ♂ imm Phenicus melanocephalus -fat- 47.8 gms 131 ? min Zonotrichia leucophrys sand fat 22.9 gms Aug 31 Willow Creek, 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 132 ♀ min Empidonax traillii -fat- 10.9 gms 133 ♀ min. Bombycilla cedrorum -fat- 37.4 gms 2½ mi N Willow Creek, 500 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 134 Sceloporus occidentalis Sept 1 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 135 Rana aurora 1 mi. W Brannan Mt., 3400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 136 ♂ Citellus beechyi 339-152-53-28. 188.4 gms 3½ mi. W Willow Creek, 2600 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 137 ♀ Cutamias townsendi 241-112-30-23 69.5 gms 1 mi W Brannan Mtn, 3300 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 138 Nyla regilla 139 Sceloporus gracillimus 140 ♀ o/o embryos Sciurus douglasii 322-127-49-27 217.2 gms
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Braman Cr., 2 mi. W Willow Creek, 1470 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 141 Dicamptodon 142 " 143 Rana boylii 540m 140 mtr. Creek 260 min. Dicampt.
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Gullion 1949 Catalogue -12- Sept 1 Branman Creek, 2 mi. W Willow Creek, 1470 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 141 Dicamptodon ensatus 142 Dicamptodon ensatus 143 Rana saylri ?i 1 mi, NW Willow Creek, 1000 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 144 ? imm Sitta canadensis 10.2 gms. 1 mi WSW Branman Mtn., 3500 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 145 ♀ imm Spinus pinus 11.6 gms. Sept 2 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif 146 Dicamptodon ensatus {Dicamptodon see ssp?ues accnt 147 Thamnophis elegans p. 2-3+4. Sept 3 2½ mi. N Willow Creek, 500 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 148 ♂ 13mm Testes Zenaidura macroura 130.0 gms. 149 ♀ imm Passerculus sandwichensis 17.1 gms. Branman Mtn., 3700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif:- 150 ♀ no Embryo Cutamias 248-109-35-22 74.8gms. 151 Bufo boreas 152 ♂ Neotoma fuscipes 357-167-35-29 169.3 gmo Sept 4 Branman Mtn., 3700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 152 ♂ 24mm Testes Sciurus douglasii 330-128-50-29 217.6gms. 154 Hylocicla - See Murray #793. 155 ♂ ad Phylades tes townsendi 3mm Testes 34.9 gmo ```</br>357-167-35-29 169.3gms.
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Hullon 1949 Catalogue -13- Sept 4 Bixman Mtn., 3950 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 156 ♀ no embryo Peromyscus truei 190-90-22-21 25.1 gms 157 ♀ no embryo Neotoma 390-177-35-43 210.0 gms Sept 5 Red Mtn., 14 mi. S Hayfork, 5300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif. 158 ♀ Phalaenoptilus nuttallii 5-1 mm Follicles 48.0 gms Sept 6 Red Mtn., 14 mi. S Hayfork, 5300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif. 159 ♀ embryo Glaucous sabrinus 291-139-36-26 95.4 gms 160 ♀ no embryo Eutamias townsendi 255.98-36-24 92.3 gms 161 ♀ 5-16 mm embryos Sciurus douglasii 341-132-50-29 243.6 gms 162 Sceloporus graciosus 163 ♀ ad. Cyanocitta stelleri 119.3 gms Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft, 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. 164 Hyloregilla 165 Sceloporus occidentalis 166 ♀ imm Turdus migratorius 73.3 gms 167 ? imm Vermivora celata 7.8 gms 168 ♂ imm Dendroica auduboni 10.9 gms 169 ♂ imm Myadestes townsendi 32.5 gms 170 ♂ imm Hylocichla guttata 21.4 gms. 171 ♂ 1 mm Testes Dendrocopos albolarvatus 61.6 gms. 172 ♂ imm Chlorura chlorura pat 32.0 gms. 173 skeleton only Owl species? see accunt under Otus asio Sept 8 same locality 174 ♀ imm Vermivora celata 8.2 gms.
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1978 1560 64 80 herbs. 76 birds 32 mammals.
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Sullivan 1949 Catalogue 14 Sept 8 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 4 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. 175 ♂ ad. Sporornis tolmiei fat 12.2 gms. 176 ♀ imm Passerculus sandwichensis fat 15.6 gms. Sept 9 same locality - 177 ♂ 10mm testis Citellus sonomae 248-109-36-22 75.4gms 178 ♂ ad. Certhia familiaris 1 mm Testes 7.9 gms 179 ♂ ad. Troglodytes aedon 1½ mm Testes fat 10.0 gms. 180 ♂ ad. Passerella iliaca 2 mm Testes 30.2 gms. 181 ♀ ad. 32.6gms. " 182 ♂ Citellus beechyi 400-180-56-29 3/6 gms. 183 Sceloporus occidentalis 184 Sceloporus graciosus 185 Sceloporus graciosus Sept 10 South Dubahella Mtn, 5700 ft., 12 mi S Hayfork Trinity Co., Calif. 186 Gerrhonotus South Dubahella Mtn., 5600 ft., 13 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co. Calif. 187 Gerrhonotus +188 Citellus lateralis - discarded - Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 4 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. 189 Gerrhonotus 190 " 191 ♀ skeleton only Capssacus carrinzi
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2. Gullion, G.W. Journal Aug. 8 - Sept. 10, 1949 Humboldt and Trinity cos., Calif.
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Guillori 1949 Index p.1 Index to the Vertebrate Species Mentioned in my Journal for the Northwest Coast Harvest, Calif. -1949 Species -190 species pages AMPHIBIA Ambystoma gracile 122,129 Dicamptodon ensatus 128,152,157,166,171,172 Rhyacotriton olympicus 128,152,163,190 Ensatina eschscholtzii 155 Aneides ferreus 155 Batrachoseps attenuatus 128 Ascaphus truei 128 Bufo boreas 144,165,174 Hyla regilla 123,170,182 Rana aurora 115,122,129,169 Rana boylii 166,171 REPTILIA Sceloporus graciosus 171,185,187,191 Sceloporus occidentalis 145,161,164,165,169,182,184. Gerrhonotus coeruleus 149,152,164,185,188. Cnemidophorus shilstonianus 149,163. Coluber constrictor 166,169 Pituophis catenifer 168 Lampropeltis sp? 168 Thamnophis elegans 172 Thamnophis sirtalis 123,163 Crotalus viridis 168 AVES Colymbus Navia sp? 132,136,192 Colymbus caspicus 121,131,136,192 Podilymbus podiceps 121,125,130,133,134,136,192
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Gullion 1949 Index p.2. Index to the Vertebrate Species Mentioned in my Journal for the Northwest Coast, Nantet, Calif.-1949 species pages Pelecanus occidentalis 112 Phalacrocorax auritus 132, 136, 192 Ardea herodias 120, 136, 159, 192 Bulorides virescens 120, 132, 136, 192 Botaurus lentiginosus 121, 125, 133, 136, 192 Casmerodius albus 191 Nycticorax nycticorax 119, 120, 136, 192 Anas platyrhynchos 121, 125, 131, 132, 133, 136, 192. Anas acuta 121, 125, 131, 132, 133, 136, 192. Anas crecca 121, 131, 136, 159, 168, 192 Anas cyanoptera 121, 130, 133, 136, 192. Oxyura jamaicensis 121, 131, 134, 136, 192 Mergus merganser 159, 167, 192 Cathartes aura 120, 136, 141, 142, 145, 159, 167, 171, 172, 178, 191, 192. Accipiter striatus 117, 120, 136, 142, 151, 159, 166, 172, 178, 188, 192 Accipiter cooperi 159, 172, 178, 184, 187, 192. Buteo jamaicensis 141, 142, 153, 159, 171, 191, 192. Aquila chrysaetos 142, 156, 192. Pandion haliaetus 112, 121, 125, 136, 192. Falco sparverius 136, 140, 142, 152, 156, 159, 172, 192. Dendragagus obscurus 142, 153, 178, 179, 192. Bonasa umbellus 157, 159, 192. Lophortys californica 136, 159, 165, 168, 177, 192. Creortyx picta 142, 150, 151, 152, 159, 171, 172, 192. Phasianus colchicus 193 Pallus limicola 132, 133, 134, 136, 192 Porzana carolina 121, 130, 132, 133, 136, 192.
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Gulliani 1949 index p.3 Index to the Vertebrate Species Mentioned in my Journal for the Northwest Coast Area, Calif.-1949 species | pages Fulica americana | 121,136,192. Charadrius hiaticula | 121,135,136,192. Charadrius vociferus | 117,120,136,192. Numenius phaeopus | 121,124,136,192. Actitis macularia | 114,119,120,136,159,192. Totanus melanoleucus | 121,123,125,136,192. Totanus flavipes | 121,130,136,192. Limnodromus griseus | 121,124,136,192. Erolia bairdii | 135,136,192. Erolia minutilla | 121,133,136,192. Ereunetes maui | 121,125,133,135,136,192. Phalaropus fulicarius | 121,130,134,136,192. Scolipes lobatus | 193 Larus delawarensis | 121,134,136,192. Brachyramphus marmoratus | 115,121,136,192. Columba fasciata | 115,119,120,123,127,136,142,145,152,159,174,192 Zenaidura macroura | 119,120,136,140,142,159,166,172,177,191,192,193. Otus asio | 159,167,174,182,192. Bubo virginianus | 117,120,136,142,151,153,156,159,174,192, Glucidium gnoma | 153,159,161,169,174,175,192. Strix occidentalis | 174,178,184,192. Phalaenoptilus nuttallii | 177,178,179,192. Chordeiles minor | 115,120,136,153,192. Chaetura vauxi | 114,120,136,159,167,178,184,186,192. Selasphorus sp? | 178,192. Selasphorus rufus | 136,178,184,192. Stellula calliope | 187
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Gullion 1949 Index p. 4 Index to the Vertebrate Species mentioned in my Journal for the Northwest Coast, Haried, Calif. - 1949 species | pages Megacephale alicyon | 114,117,120,132,136,158,159,192. Colaptes cafer | 115,120,136,142,145,152,153,158,161,187,188,191,192 Dryoscopus pileatus | 112,121,136,142,159,161,178,179,187,192. Balanophyga formicivora | 142,143,144,145,151,159,161,171,191,192. Acyndemus lewis | 191 Sphyrapicus varius | 113,119,120,136,142,147,192. Dendrocopus villosus | 118,120,127,136,159,192. Dendrocopus pubescens | 120,136,142,154,159,161,165,167,192. Dendrocopus nuttalli | 191 Dendrocopus albiflavatus | 178,182,183,186,188,192. Tyrannus verticalis | 193. Sayornis nigricans | 119,120,136,159,192. Sayornis saya | 191 Empidonax sp? | 123,142,153,159,161,165,192. Empidonax difficilis | 120,127,136,147,167,192. Cortouga richardsoni | 120,136,142,159,168,192. Nuttallornis borealis | 114,120,136,142,145,159,174,176,178,185,186,192. Cremophila alpestris | 193 Tachycineta thalassina | 120,136,192. Lridoptocne bicolor | 120,136,159,171,192. Stelgidopteryx ruficollis | 112,114,120,131,134,136,192. Hirundo rustica | 121,131,136,178,180,192. Pelioobalidon sp? | Progne subis | 112,113,121,126,136,192. Perisoreus canadensis | 113,121,136,192. Cyanocitta stelleri | 115,118,121,136,141,142,144,147,151,154,155 | 158,159,160,163,178,179,192.
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Gulliani 1949 Index p.3 Index to the Vertebrate Species Mentioned in my Journal for the Northwest Coast (Harvest), Calif.-1949 pages | pages Fulica americana 121, 136, 192. Charadrius hiaticula 121, 135, 136, 192. Charadrius vociferus 117, 120, 136, 192. Numenius phaeopus 121, 124, 136, 192. Actitis macularia 114, 119, 120, 136, 159, 192. Totanus melanoleucus 121, 123, 125, 136, 192. Totanus flavipes 121, 130, 136, 192. Limnodromus griseus 121, 124, 136, 192. Erolia Bairdii 135, 136, 192. Erolia minutilla 121, 133, 136, 192. Crenetes mauri 121, 125, 133, 135, 136, 192. Phalaropus fulicarius 121, 130, 134, 136, 192. Sibipes lobatus 193 Starus delawareensis 121, 134, 136, 192. Brachyramphus mormoturus 115, 121, 136, 192. Columba fasciata 115, 119, 120, 123, 127, 136, 142, 145, 152, 159, 174, 192 Zenaida macroura 119, 120, 136, 140, 142, 159, 166, 172, 177, 191, 192, 193. Otus asio 159, 167, 174, 182, 192. Bubo virginianus 117, 120, 136, 142, 151, 153, 156, 159, 174, 192, Athuidium grama 153, 159, 161, 169, 174, 175, 192. Strix occidentalis 174, 178, 184, 192. Phalanoptilus nuttallii 177, 178, 179, 192. Chordeiles minor 115, 120, 136, 153, 192. Chaetura vauxi 114, 120, 136, 159, 167, 178, 184, 186, 192. Selaophorus sp? 178, 192. Selaophorus rufus 136, 178, 184, 192. Stellula calliope 187
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Gullion 1949 index p. 4 Index to the Vertebrate Species Mentioned in my Journal for the Northwest Coast District, Cal. - 1949 species pages Megascylus alcyon 114, 117, 120, 132, 136, 158, 159, 192. Colaptes cafer 115, 120, 136, 142, 145, 152, 153, 158, 161, 187, 188, 191, 192. Dryocopus pileatus 112, 121, 136, 142, 159, 161, 178, 179, 187, 192. Balancophya formicivora 142, 143, 144, 145, 151, 159, 161, 171, 191, 192. Cayndonus lewis 191 Sphyrapicus varius 113, 119, 120, 136, 142, 147, 192. Dendrocopus villosus 118, 120, 127, 136, 159, 192. Dendrocopus pubescens 120, 136, 142, 154, 159, 161, 165, 167, 192. Dendrocopus muttalli 191 Dendrocopus albiflavatus 178, 182, 183, 186, 188, 192. Tyrannus verticalis 193. Sayornis nigricans 119, 120, 136, 159, 192. Sayornis saya 191 Empidonax sp? 123, 142, 153, 159, 161, 165, 192. Empidonax difficilis 120, 127, 136, 147, 167, 192. Contopus richardsoni 120, 136, 142, 159, 168, 192. Nutallornis borealis 114, 120, 136, 142, 145, 159, 174, 176, 178, 185, 186, 192. Eremophila alpestris 193 Tachycineta thalassina 120, 136, 192. Aridoptocne bicolor 120, 136, 159, 171, 192. Stelgidopteryx ruficollis 112, 114, 120, 131, 134, 136, 192. Hirundo rustica 121, 131, 136, 178, 180, 192. Heliohelidon papilenta Progne subis 112, 113, 121, 126, 136, 192. Perisoreus canadensis 113, 121, 136, 192. Cyanocitta stelleri 115, 118, 121, 136, 141, 142, 144, 147, 151, 154, 155 158, 159, 160, 163, 178, 179, 192.
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Gullion 1949 index p.5 Index to the Vertebrate Species mentioned in my journal for the Northwest Coast Trans, Calif.-1949 species pages Aphelocoma coerulescens 142,144,146,159,165,167,191,192. Corvus corax 119,121,126,136,140,142,178,192. Parus gambeli 159,171,175,178,182,186,188,192. Parus rufescens 113,114,118,121,123,127,136,141,142,151,152, 153,155,159,160,162,163,192. Parus inornatus 191 Psaltriparus minimus 121,136,159,167,178,192. Sitta carolinensis 142,146,152,178,184,191,192. Sitta canadensis 121,126,127,136,141,142,144,151,159,162,163 171,175,178,180,182,186,188,192. Certhia familiaris 121,127,136,142,159,178,184,192. Chamacea fasciata 121,136,142,145,149,159,163,174,192. Cinclus mexicanus 159,192. Troglodytes aedon 121,122,136,178,183,185,192. Troglodytes troglodytes 113,121,127,136,159,178,186,192. Telmotodectes palustris 121,134,136,192. Turdus migratorius 114,117,121,136,142,145,147,155,159,165,168,175,178,179,192 Exoreus macvinus 119,121,123,136,192. Hylocichla guttata 121,126,127,136,142,145,151,156,159,161,175,178,184,183,192. Hylocichla ustulata 113,121,136,159,161,163,167,168,169,192. Sialia mexicana 142,147,178,186,192. Myodestes townsendi 159,176,178,181,192. Regulus satrapa 113,118,121,127,136,142,159,178,192. Cinclus spinusletta 178,185,187,192.. Bombycilla cedrorum 115,121,136,159,168,175,178,179,192. Lanius ludovicianus 191,193 Vireo huttoni 118,121,136,142,149,159,161,162,192.
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Sullivan 1949 Index p.6 Index to the Vertebrate Species mentioned in my journal for the Northwest Coast District, Calif. -1949 species | pages Vireo solitarius | 118,121,136,142,159,161,175,178,192. Vireo gilvus | 159,161,192. Verivora celata | 142,146,159,165,176,178,181,182,183,192. Vermivora sufficapilla | 178,180,192. Dendroica petechia | 121,136,192. Dendroica auduboni | 159,171,176,178,182,187,192. Dendroica migrascens | 172,178,187,192, Dendroica occidentalis | 142,145,151,192. Geospiza tolmiei | 142,178,183,192. Geothlypis trichas | 159,167,192. Oicterus viridis | 159,165,166,167,192. Wilsonia pusilla | 114,118,121,123,136,142,153,156,159,162,163,169,192. Passer domesticus | 139 Sturnella neglecta | 142,155,192. Aegialinos phoeniceus | 121,132,136,192,193 Cuphagus cyanoccephalus | 121,131,136,176,192. [illegible] Piranga ludovicianana | 121,136,142,157,159,167,176,192. Phaucticus melanocephalus | 115,121,136,159,167,192. Passerina amoena | 121,130,136,159,191,192 Carpodacus purpureus | 121,136,159,167,176,192. Carpodacus cassini | 178,179,185,192. Carpodacus mexicanus | 121,136,159,165,192. Spinus pinus | 121,127,136,142,145,159,169,178,187,192. Spinus tristis | 121,136,142,159,191,192 Spinus psaltria | 142,154,159,165,192 Loxia curvirostra | 115,121,126,127,136,141,142,145,147,151,154,159,178,192
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Kullion 1949 index page 7 Index to the Vertebrate Species mentioned in my journal for the Northwest Coast Harvest, Calif. - 1949 species pages Chlorura chlorura 178, 182, 187, 192. Pipilo maculatus 121, 136, 159, 165, 167, 171, 176, 178, 183, 184, 192. Pipilo fuscus 176, 178, 182, 192. Passerculus sandwichensis 121, 125, 129, 130, 136, 159, 172, 178, 184, 192. Chondestes grammacus 159, 165, 166, 167, 192. Junco oreganus 121, 136, 142, 153, 159, 162, 163, 168, 169, 178, 181, 183, 192. Spizella passerina 121, 136, 142, 153, 192. Zonotrichia leucophrys 121, 136, 142, 159, 167, 192. Passerella iliaca 178, 184, 185, 192. Melospiza melodia 113, 121, 129, 136, 159, 165, 167, 192. MAMMALIA Sorex trowbridgii 125 Sorex pacificus 115, 118, 125, 126, 129. Myotis yumanensis 118. Myotis californicus 165. Ursus americanus 149, 171, 175, 179. Procyon lotor 132, 171. Mustela vison 129, 133. Canis latrans 174. Lynx rufus 171 Citamias amoenus 183, 184. Citamias sonomae 169, 170, 174, 184. Citamias townsendii 129, 163, 169, 177, 183, 184. Citellus beecheyi 140, 168, 170, 182, 185. Citellus lateralis 180, 187. Sciurus douglasii 143, 171, 175, 179, 184, 186. Sciurus griseus 160, 164, 168, 180, 186.
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Dullion 1949 Index p.8 Index to the Vertebrate Species Mentioned in my Journal for the Northwest Coast Trans., Calif.-1949 species | pages ------------------------------------------ Glaucomys sabrinus | 151, 174, 175, 177, 185. Thomomys bottae | 185 Peromyscus maniculatus | 141, 144, 150, 151, 152. Peromyscus truei | 175 Neotoma fuscipes | 141, 175. Clethionomys californius | 151 Zapus trinotatus | 115, 122, 126, 129. Sylvilagus nuttalli | 145, 160, 166. Cervus canadensis | 139 Odocoileus hemionus | 119, 132, 149, 162, 171, 176, 177, 179, 181, 184.
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Humboldt 1949 Aug 8 Journal -112- Big Lagoon Humboldt Co. Calif - Arrived here after 6 p.m. This evening. Left Berkeley about 5 a.m., came via San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Eureka. Got supplies at Arcata. Saw two osprey nests in the tops of redwoods and picked up a dead immature Pileated Woodpecker- on highway .5 mile south of the Sonoma-Mendocino County line. Saw 2 Purple Martins at one place along the way but failed to record the locality - it was north of Fairfaxville and south of the Humboldt Bay area. Saw 1 Brown Pelican plus many gulls on the rocks north of Trinidad Head. The camp as now set up is at the S end of Big Lagoon - a small grassy opening surrounded by thimble-berry with dead snags of Sitka spruce immediately E of camp. Aug 8 - same locality - went out with Dr. Miller early this morning, then returned, loaded up and went hunting alone - worked along Maple Creek E of camp until I came to a sharp corner in the stream with shallow water that allowed me to cross - then I worked across the gravel bar - missing a Rough-winged Swallow enroute - cut across a pasture meadow and in alongside a thick Sitka spruce Picea sitchensis forest, with thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus, salmonberry Rubus spectabilis , nettle.
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Journal -113- Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Urtica Californica and alder. A family group came through the forest and I collected 1 immature and 1 adult ♂ Worked up E along the thicket to an area hollowed out by cattle. I turned into the forest fasteres there. Working in & found a very moist situation with very large plants of stem Cabbage Lyssichiton Kamtschaticense a sedge Carex sp., and some areas of extremely dense salmonberry. Spruce was the only conifer in the area and the alder Ulmus rubra being the under-story tree. Also lots of ferns of several species, deep moss and liverworts. Lots of deer pellets and a number of game trails. Chestnut-backed thrushes, song sparrows and winter wrens were common on the forest floor - chestnut backed chickadees, golden-crowned kinglets seemed to be about all in the spruce foliage. Purple martins were nearly constantly overhead - head above the forest top. Worked back out of this area, crossing a pasture to the birdge across Maple Creek. In the alder-willow vignarian association I saw two Red-breasted Sapsuckers, numerous
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Journal Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Pileated Woodpeckers, several Chestnut-backed Chickadees. Worked on down the logging road to the turn in the creek. Saw young robins clamoring for food in a thimbleberry patch right on the edge of the steep stream banks, but I was not able to locate the nest. Returned to camp shinned the two jays and then went out in the afternoon to pick up a couple of Olive-sided Flycatchers. Both birds were immatures, apparently of a first and second brood, still being attended by parents. After shimming one of the immature Olive-sides I went with Dr. Pearson back to the thick forest area visited earlier in the morning and set out a mammal trap line. I set about 20 traps in quite moist situations, among Sword Ferns, under rotten logs and Shingle Cabbage leaves. Also some traps by holes in runways and on top of logs and roots. On the way to the area we saw a Spotted Sandpiper at the bend of the creek - while I saw a Kingfisher and many Varied Thrushes besides the Rough
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Gulletti 1949 journal -115- Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. winged Swallow earlier in the day. After dinner I shot at bats (once!) without any success. In addition to the above listed birds & heard Musclets flying overhead early this morning, saw several groups of Band-tailed Pigeons, heard one Flicker. Tried to collect a couple of Crossbills, shot and missed a young Waywing, heard Steller Jays Twice. Aug 10 same locality - This morning went over to the trap line I put out last night - collected a Black-headed Grosbeak on the forest edge - the trap line produced 2 Sorex pacificus and 1 Zapus trinotatus. Picked up a Rana aurora along Maple Creek about 100 yards below the bridge. Returned to camp and shinned out my take - one Sorex proved too battered to be worth shinning. It cleared out 3:30 p.m. today - now at 4:30 it is clear with a mass of medium high clouds lifting in from the west.. After supper I went back over to the bend in Maple Creek (see next page) and worked around there. 3 Nighthawks were circling over the forested hill S of camp and
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Bullion 1949 Journal -116- Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. map of Maple Creek campsite and environs. North Adjoins map on Page 124. W Fire warden cabin Log Pond meadow Maple creek Spurce Pasture Trail crop Pasture gravel bar. pasture spurce forest ambeytown pool willow draw -trap line area. North.
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Aug 10 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Two more were heard over the Spruce Grove N & E of Camp. Worked further up the road - flushing a Sharp-Shinned Hawk from the alders along Maple Creek. A Kingfisher was rattling along the stream and just as I lowered to collect one it hit the water picking up a fish and taking off. Another Kingfisher came down stream and perched nearby - both of them rattling all the time. While still bright daylight a Barned Owl came out of the Spruce Forest and perched atop a 20-25 foot alder. Robins immediately came in after it. I tried to collect the owl but missed my single swing shot. It flew directly back into the spruce forest - 1 robin followed it part way but soon came back out. About 2 minute later a Killdeer came screaming down the creek, landed for a moment on the gravel bar and then departed on downstream. Shooting bats on the SW edge of the spruce forest I knocked down one but didn't find it. Moved over to the gravel bar - fired at 3 or 4 more bats but it was too dark. I moved back down the
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Million 1949 Journal -118- Aug 10 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.- road towards the Fire Wardens cabin - to The woods along the road at the SW corner of the pasture S of camp. There - in the dark of night - I could hear rabbits running along the stream side and a couple of animals I suspect to be deer crashing around in the brush nearby. Aug 11 same locality - Went over to my bat shooting spot of last night- found the missing bat [illegible] went on to my trap line picked up two Sorex pacificus, relocated several traps, putting them in small underground burrows of some animal. leaving the trap line I started out of the forest when I ran into a mob of Chestnut-backed Chickadees. With them were Golden-crowned Kinglets, Hutton Vireos (3), a Pileated Warbler, and a Blairy Wood- pecker. That I heard a Cassin Vireo but wasn't sure while trying to track it down I collected 2 of Stellar jays. Another caching jay came into the immediate vicinity but I was not able to take him it. Went back to where the Chickadees had been and examined a robin's nest. After examining the nest & heard a faint pecking in some
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llion 1949 journal -179- Aug 11 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.- nearly alders, right on the forest edge-so I moved over-but the bird left, flying S Towards Maple Creek-(incidentally when crossing Maple Creek right at the corner this morning, 3 Spotted Sandpipers alighted momentarily on the gravel bar)-following the Sapouche I scared out a doe Black- tailed Deer and her fawn from an older willow bottom, and then proceeding to the stream edge, spotted and collected an immature Black Phoebe. Working on down the Stream I heard another sapouche working on an elder on the stream edge but was unable to see it so I left. About 5:45 in the evening 2 Ravens were croaking in a tree a little N of camp so I took off after them. As I entered the alder grove a Varied Thrush flew up from the ground into the alders- a little further along 2 Band-tailed Pigeons flushed out of a red elderberry where they apparently had been feeding- the ravens flew before I was able to get a shot at them. About 6:45 p. a Mourning Dove flew over the camp site. About 7:30 p.m. 3 Black-crowned Night Herons flew over camp, Td.
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Bullwin 1949 Journal -120- Aug 11 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Person took a crack at them without any success. - Check list of species seen to date in this immediate area + late seen. Great Blue Heron 9# - 12, 15, 17, Green Heron 10# - 12, 13, 17, Black-crowned Nite Heron 11# Turkey Vulture 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 Sharp-shinned Hawk 10, 18, Kildeer 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, Spotted Sandpipers 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, Band-tailed Pigeon 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, Mourning Dove 9, 11, Horned Owl 10, Night Hawk 10, 12, 15, 18, Vaux Swift 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 Belted Kingfisher 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 Flicker 9, 14, Red-breasted Sapsucker 9, 11, 18, Hairy Woodpecker 9, 10, 11, 14, 18, Downy Woodpecker 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, Black Phoebe 11, Western Flycatcher 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, Wood Pewee 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, Olive-sided Flycatcher 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18. Violet-green Swallow 9, 10, 17, Tree Swallow 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, Rough-winged Swallow 9, 10, 11, 12, 17,
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Hullion 1949 Journal 12/8. Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif - check list cont'd Barn Swallow 10, 12, 15, 17, Purple Martin 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 Canada Jay 9, 12, 13, Steller Jay 9, 10, 11, 12, Raven 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, Chestnut-backed Chickadee 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, Bush-tito - 9, 15, 18, Wren-tit 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, House Wren 10, 12, Winter Wren 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, Robin 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, Varied Thrush 11, 12, 13, 18, Russet-back Thrush 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 Golden-crown Kinglet 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, Elder Waxwing 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, Button Vires 11, Yellow Warbler 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, Pileolated Warbler 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Western Tanager 9, 13, Black- headed Grosbeak 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, Purple Finch 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, House Finch 9, Pine Siskin 10, 11, 12, 14, American Goldfinch 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, Red Crossbill 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, Spotted Towhee 9, Oregon Junco 9, 10,
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Hullon 1949 Journal 12/8. -Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.- checklist- Chipping Sparrow Aug. 10, White Crowned Sparrow 9, 10, 18, Song Sparrow 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, Pileated Woodpecker. 12, 13, 14, Marbled Murrelet 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, Red-billed Grouse 12, 15, 17 American Bittern 12, 17, Mallard 12, 15, 17, Pintail 12, 15, 17, Osprey 12, 15, 17, 18, Semipalmated Plover 12, 15, 17, Hudsonian Curlew 12, Greater Yellow-legs 12, 18, Least Sandpiper 12, 15, 17, Slit-billed Dowitcher 12, 17, Western Sandpiper 12, 15, 17, Marsh Wren 12, 15, 17, Redwings 12, 15, 17, Savannah Sparrows 12, 14, 15, Hermit Thrush 14, Creeper. 14, Red-breasted Nuthatch 14, Green-winged Teal 15, # Cinnamon Teal 15, 17, Ruddy Duck 15, 17, Sora 15, 17, Eared Grebe 15,
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Dullran 1949 Journal 1218. Big Lagoon Humboldt Co. Calif - check-list Map series. American Coot Aug. 15 Lesser Yellow-legs 15 Red Phalarope 15 Ring-billed Gull 15, 17, Laguli Bunting 15, Cassin Vireo 16, 17, Brewer Blackbird 17,
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ullion 1949 Journal -122- Aug 12 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - Visited my mammal traps in Spruce Forest E of Camp. - 1 Zapus and 1 Rana was extent of catch so I picked up the traps and moved them - 18 of them - to positions along the little stream going thru the woods. Now all my traps are along that water course - the last one marked by a shrubs cabbage leaf under it. This "stream" does not seem to be moving, it is closely bordered by a Sedge Care, by deer fern Comaria spicant and [illegible] fern Athyrium filix-femina and by shrubs cabbage. A broad-leaf maple Acer macrophyllum overhang much of the trap line, and Sword fern Polystichum munitum and salmonberry form dense thicket just back from the stream edge. The ground is well covered with moss. Mosquitos and Rana aurora? are for abundance. Returning towards Camp I found a pair of House Wrens feeding around the base of a large fallen Tree in the [illegible] pasture E of Camp. Skinned the Zapus I caught, preserved the 7 salamander larvae I found in the "stream" with
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Dullion 1949 Journal -123- Aug 12 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. -the traps along it. Took off north of camp along the west side of Maple Creek. founds a Varies Thrush nest with eggs in it, saw a flighty tailed wing flipping Empidonax and called out a mixed flock 50/50 of Chestnut- backed Chickadees and Pileated Warblers from the willows bordering the large meadow. Spotted two Band- tailed Pigeons sitting on top a dead snag, part of a spruce tree - going in after them, thru tangles of willow, Salmonberry and elderberry. knocking both of them down, but I didn't find either of them. Worked on over to the Nedge of the meadow. The meadow is composed of much over grazed grass with a Potentilla mixed in. Also some Scirpus and a few compact cumps of willows scattered around. Collected a Hylla regilla from a mass of Carex and a Thamnyphis pirtalis from under a willow clump along side Maple Creek. Followed the creek on down towards its mouth. Got a shot at a Boater Yellow-legs but missed - Then
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Gullion 1949 journal -124- Aug 12 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif. N BIG LAGOON BRIDGE HILTON NEW CHANNEL bend minh site. Minh Channel ISLAND MAPLE CREEK CROSS CHANNEL Long pond. DUCK POND DENSE SCIRPUS Road LOG POND Bridge MEADOW Map of Marsh at Bend of Big Lagoon I crossed the Cross Channel at the E end to the island, worked W across the island to the Old Mouth where I collected 1 Dowitcher on shallow- mud covered with Potamogeton. Wounded a second but it flew away. Worked then around the lagoon side of the island to the New Mouth, heard a Hudsonian Curlew, and then
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Gullion 1949 Journal. -125- Aug 12 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co Calif - I collected 1 Western Sandpiper then cut back across the island towards its SW corner - 2 Yellow-legs came over but I didn't get them. Flushed 4 American Bitterns out of the mixed Scirpus, Eleocharis, Carex vegetation covering the island. Finally left the island, wading across the New Mouth near its junction with Cross Channel - then cutting back to hit shore on S side of Cross Channel - cut on into the Scirpus towards the Log Pond - came across a duck pond - scattering about 50 Mallards and Pintails. A single Red-billed Teal stayed on the pond - cut from there on thru the tangled Scirpus to the log pond. As I was going after the Pswitches an Osprey was seen resting on a sand bar in the middle of the Old Mouth. Aug 13 same locality - went over my trap line this morning, got one Sorex pacificus and one Sorex Trowbridgii. On the way over to my traps I found a flock of about six Savannah Sparrows
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Gullros 1949 Journal. -126- Aug 13 Big Laguna, Humboldt Co., Calif.- fedding at the south end of the pasture S of camp. Collected one. About 10:30 Crosswills came over camp and into a Spruce across the creek. I knocked one out of the tree but was unable to find it! Spent most of the day shinning yesterday's catch. Aug 14- same locality- Went over to my trap line in the Spruce forest E of camp - caught a Zapus and 3 Sorex pacificus. Returning to Camp I left with Dr. Miller for the top of the ridge E of the Laguna. We followed the Hammond Lumber Company Road up. It crosses the ridge in the gap just N of the point 1731 feet on the Trinidad Quadrangle-AMS sheet 120331. The elevation at the gap was 1600 feet. Crossing the gap we followed a road going along the E side of the ridge to the head of the valley, saw 2 savana feeding along there, then cut back to the gap and went down a road still under construction north from the gap but again on the east side of the ridge. Heard a Vermit thrush, Martin and Red-breasted Nuttatch
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Yelloni 1949 journal -127 Aug 14 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif. and saw a Winter Wren. This area is ancient forest, mostly Douglas fir, but with much Redwood and Hemlock mixed in. Underbrush mostly Rhododendron, Blue Huckleberry, Chinquapin and some Salad. The forest was surprisingly devoid of animal life. We returned to the gap, left the car and worked the cut area south of the gap. Much of this area still has cut logs in it that have not been snaked out. About all that is standing are the smaller Redwoods and Douglas fir and the hemlock, plus several sizable trees of Chinquapin. Band- tailed Pigeons were flying overhead, Western Flycatchers calling, a Hermit Thrush, Crossbills, Pine Siskins, Hairy Woodpecker, Creepers. Returning to the car we found a road going south from the gap running right along the ridge. We went down to the upper part of a canyon where the road became too steep for the Chevy. Got out and hunted around. Only Red-breasted Nuthatches, Chestnut-backed Chickadees, and Golden-crowned Kinglets were heard
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Miller 1949 Journal -128- Aug 14 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. This area right on the crest is about 50% redwood, with dense Chinquapin; Rhododendron - Salal understory. From there we returned to camp. Shined for awhile after lunch and then went up into the redwood forest above the lumber company shops, to about 250 feet, where we (Murray, Dr. Miller & myself) worked a stream(found by Cogswell & Dr. Pearson) for Rycho Triton, Ascaphus and Dicamptodon amphibians. Found 1 Dicamptodon adult,[Batrachyga] quite a number of Rycho triton larvae and 1 adult, many Ascaphus larvae and 1 adult. This area has nearly a pure stand of redwood - with a salal - blue & vaccinium papilifolium red huckleberry - and some Rhododendron understory - also at least 4 species of ferno (according to Cogswell) - the stream drops about 20 feet for 100 feet of run - is 55° F temp, and much choked with logs and wood debris - it falls over a substrate of rounded boulders - many moss covered is a clear stream. Below the road it becomes underground for short distances, and forms a few fairly sizable pools.
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Dullon 1949 journal -129- Aug 14 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. The stream flows towards WSW—azimuth 120°. Aug 15—same locality—visited my trap line this morning. On the way to it saw Bush-tits in addition to the usual birds along the stream border on Maple Creek. Heard a Chipmunk on the edge of the Spruce Forest E of Camp. It was scolding but it would not show itself. Caught 2 Zapus and 1 Sorex pacificus and 1 Song Sparrow in my trap line. Took all 18 up. Photographed the deep spruce forest and the [illegible] pool. Went on to the E end of the [illegible]—found a small trickling stream just in the brush—collected one Rana aurora. Then returned to camp to skin and put up specimens. About 3 pm. set out for the marsh—took 1 Savannah Sparrow [in the pasture] just below the Maple Creek Bridge, then a 2nd one in the [illegible] along the bank of the first bend of the creek. Worked on down the creek to where a dry channel cuts across—saw and fired upon a mink there—I believe I wounded it but it escaped into the dense Scirpus. Leaving there I worked
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Bullion 1949 Journal -130- Aug 15 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif. -- on down to the S side of the cross channel, then cut back to the "Long Pond" (see journ. p.124), on to the Duck pond. Shot a Lesser Yellow-lege on this Potamogeton choked pond. The same charge also wounded a Gosa. Saw 2 other Gosas in this pond and heard several others. Cut from there across the soggy ground to the S arm of the old channel mouth. Spotted and collected at Red Phalarope there. (While shinning this morning, a Lazuli Bunting came thru camp- I tried to collect it but failed) - Worked up to the Cross Channel, crossed it and went on out along the E side of the old Mouth. Worked on around the lagoon side of the island. Collected a Savannah Sparrow on the edge of a Carex stand. Waded the new mouth and worked towards the E side. Collected a Cinnamon-Teal on a bay in the Scirpus, crossed towards the lagoon and fired at a Goot (1 of 2) deep in the Scirpus but without effect. Moved on awarp and a Pied-billed Grebe made its appearance, and was promptly,
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Hullon 1949 Journal -131- Aug 15 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif. collected. - Going back away - I saw 2 Reddy Ducks on the open water just S of the juncture of Cross Channel with the old mouth - an Oared Grebe with mystical "ears" in the Scipus just W of the Buddies' location - and an adult Piled-billed Grebe further out in the Old Mouth but near the Wedge. About 50-75 Pintails and nearly the same number of Mallards were milling around over head most of the day. The shot total was in company with another blue winged bird and a Green-winged Teal when collected. After taking the Grebe I followed a well defined and much used deer trail back to the channel of Maple Creek - crossed the creek and returned to camp. Aug 16 same locality - Spent the entire day skinning yesterday catch. It was clear from dawn until now - 5:57pm - at least. Aug 17 same locality - Left camp early this morning to work the marsh area at the S end of the Lagoon. Rough-winged Swallows and Barn Swallows were feeding over the log pond and about 15-20 Brewer
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Kullori 1949 Journal -133- Aug 17 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. heard, saw and fried on one Virginia Rail in a Cares thicket just W of the New Month of Maple Creek. Collected a Western Sand piper on the mud flats just a little further W from a patch of westerns and Geats. Worked on over to the Old Month, scaing up several hundred Pintails and several Mallards. Worked S across the Wend of the Cross Channel to the Send of Long Pond, on over-to the W side of the duck pond. Many Pintails took off from there, and Mallards with "blue-winged" (probably Cinnamon) Teal passed overhead. A Pied-billed Grebe was on the pond and rails were calling all around. Collected one Virginia Rail, fired at but missed another Virginia Rail. Worked down to the SW corners of the same pond where I fried at but missed another Sora , then collected another Virginia Rail and [illegible] nearly collected an American Bittern at the same time. While writing notes there a Mink approached to within about 2 feet
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Gullion 1949 Journal -134- Aug 17 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. of me but left before I could get it. Saw a pair of Marsh Wrens feeding 3 freshly killed young. Moved on over towards the S arm of the Old Mouth, collecting a Least Sandpiper on the way, and observing an extremely dark Virginia Rail. Crossed both parts of the S arm, and worked up the W side. Saw a ♀ Buffy Duck opposite the end of Cross Channel, knocked down but mutilated a Rough-winged Swallow, saw 2 immature Ring- billed Gulls flying in the fog. Incidentally, about 10 a.m. the water of the marsh had warmed up so much that the cool breeze from the ocean formed a dense low fog, on the water surface, making long range observation impossible. At noon the fog still had not completely burned off. Worked on along the W side of the Old Mouth towards the S W end of the bridge- near there I collected 2 of 4 Pied- billed Grebes. Returning, I forded Old Mouth just N of the end of Cross Channel, worked on along
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Fallion 1949 Journal -135- Aug 17 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co. Calif - The Nedge of the sedge on the island To and across the New Mouth. Onto mud flats there were 2 Baird Sandpipers with Western Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers. I tried to collect one bairdi but failed, they flew across the mouth and I went back after them, fired again but missed, they flew back E across the mouth again this time disappearing into the fog. Then 1 flew out from almost under foot, it crossed the mouth, I followed and finally collected it using a full load of #10 and 2-1/2 loads. Then I returned directly to camp to skin the day bag. Aug 18 - same locality - Stayed in camp all day today finishing my shinning and getting the final touches on my notebook fixed up. We are planning on moving tomorrow.
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Willam 1949 Aug 8-18. Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co, Cal. Habitats Maple Creek Camp. For description of habitats see following pages. -136- Riparian Brush-pasture edge. Open Prairie Spruce forest edge. Deep Spruce Forest Redwood-Douglas Fir Forest, 1600 ft elev. Emergent Marsh Vegetation. Mud Flat Gravel Bar. Open Water Species. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 Loon sp? 2 Eared Grebe. 3 Pied-billed Grebe. 4 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Blue Heron. 6 Green Heron X 7 Black-crowned Night Heron seen in flight only. 8 American Bittern X 9 Mallard. X X X X 10 Pintail X X X 11 Green-winged Teal. X 12 Cinnamon Teal. X X 13 Ruddy Duck. X X 14 Turkey Vulture seen in flight only. 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk X 16 Cooper's Hawk perched on isolated food spruces and mud flat. also flying only / stay. 17 California Quail X 18 Virginia Rail X X 19 Sora. X 20 Coot X 21 Semipalmated Plover X X 22 Killdeer X 23 Hudsonian Godwit seen in flight only. 24 Spotted Sandpiper X 25 Greater Yellowlegs X 26 Lesser Yellow-legs X 27 Baird Sandpiper X
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Gullson 1949 Aug 8-18 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. For description of habitats see following pages. -136- Bajanian Brush-pasture edge Open Pasture Spruce forest edge. Deep Spruce Forest Redwood Douglas Fir Forest. 1600 ft. elev. Emergent Marsh Vegetation Mud Flat Sand Bar. Open Water 25 Least Sandpiper X X X 29 Western Sandpiper X X 30 Short-billed Dowitcher X 31 Red Phalarope X 32 Ring-billed Gull seen in flight over Marsh only. 33 Mabled Murlet seen in flight only. 34 Band-tailed Pigeon X X X 35 Mourning Dove X 36 Horned Owl X X 37 Night hawk seen in flight only 38 Vaux. Swift seen in flight only 39 Rufous Hummingbird X X 40 Belted King fishes X X 41 Flicker X 42 Pileated Woodpecker X X 43 Red-breast Sapsucker X X 44 Hairy Woodpecker X X X 45 Downy Woodpecker X X 46 Black Phoebe X 47 Western Flycatcher X X X 48 Wood Pewee X X 49 Olive-sided Flycatcher - only on top or nypper branches of tallest trees in or out of a forest area, 50 Violet-green Swallow - seen in flight only. 51 Tree Swallow - seen in flight X X X 53 Rough-wing Swallow. X - X - seen in flight- X X - over 53 Barn Swallow . X - seen in flight- X 84 Purple Martin seen or heard in flight over all habitats.
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Gullian 1949 Aug 8-18 Maple Creek Camp. Humboldt Co., Calif. For description of habitats see following pages. -136- | |Bogarian| | |Brush-pasture edge. | | |Open Pasture | | |Spruce forest edge. | | |Deep Spruce Forest | | |Redwood-Douglas Fir Forest, 1000 ft elev. | | |Emergent Wood Vegetation | | |Mud Flat | | |Gravel Bar. | | |Open Water | 55 Gray Jay. 56 Stellar Jay. X X 57 Raven X X X X 58 Chestnut-backed Chickadee X X X X X 59 Bush-tit X 60 Red-breasted Nuthatch X 61 Brown Creeper. X X 62 Wren-tit X X X 63 House Wren. X 64 Winter Wren. X X 65 Marsh Wren. X 66 Robin X X X X 67 Varied Thrush. X 68 Hermit Thrush X 69 Russet-backed Thrush. X X X 70 Golden-crowned Kinglet X X X X 71 Cedar Waxwing X 72 Hutton Vireo X 73 Solitary Vireo X 74 Yellow Warbler X X 75 Pileolated Warbler X X X 76 Red-wing X X 77 Brewer Blackbird X 78 Western Tanagers. X X 79 Black-headed Grosbeak X X X 80 Lazuli Bunting X 81 Purple Finch X X
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Sullivan. 1949 Aug 8-18 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. For description of habitats see following pages. -136- Bogarian Brush-pasture edge. Open-Pasture Spruce forest edge. Deep Spruce Forest Redwood-Douglas Fir Forest. Vegetation Mud Flat Gravel Bar. Open water 2 House Finch X 33 Pine Siskin X X X X 34 American Goldfinch X 35 Red Crossbill X X -and feeding in isolated spruce trees. 36 Spotted Towhee X when dry 37 Savannah Sparrow X X X 38 Gray Junco. X X 39 Chipping Sparrow. X 40 White-crowned Sparrow X 41 Song Sparrow. X X X X X X when dry
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Gullugi 1940 Journal 137 Aug 8-18 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co, Calif. Descriptions of habitats used on page 136. 1. Riparian - the brush and trees bordering Maple Creek consisting of Alder Alnus rubra , willows Salix sitchensis var coulteri Salix lasiandra , some Red Elder Sambuco racemosa , an apple Pyrus fusca , salmon- and thimble berry. Rubus spectabilis and Rubus parviflorus . 2. Brush-pasture edge - as named, consisting mostly of thimble and salmon berry, bushy alders, blackberry Rubus laciniatus Rubus leucodermis , some braken fern Pteris aquilina , and an occasional hazel Corylus rostrata . . 3. Open pasture - consists of grazed grass- lands, often with dense stands of Canada thistle Cirsium arvense . 4. Spruce forest edge - is the dense deciduous growth bordering deep spruce forest. It is composed of large alders, red elder, willow with under-story of salmon- tree and thimble berry and nettles. 5. Deep Spruce forest dominated by Sitka Picea sitchensis spruce , with an under-story of alder, broad-leaf maple Acer macrophyllum
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Quillen 1949 Journal 138 Aug 8-18 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Red elder, with ground cover of Redge Carex obnupta, shanks cabbage Lychnites tenstocktense, sword fern Polystichum omatum, lady wood fern Athyrium filix-femina, deer fern Polystic [illegible] Lomaria spicant, and thickets of salmon berry Rubus spectabilis and occasionally, blue huckleberry Vaccinium ovatum. 6. Redwood-Douglas fir forest - visited briefly on top of the ridge of camp. Dominant trees 50-50 Douglas fir Pseudotsuga douglasii and redwood Sequoia sempervirens. Under- story of Chinquapin Castanopsis chrysophylla and hemlock Tsuga heterophylla, with Rhododendron Salal Gaultheria shallon and red huckle- berry forming the ground cover. 7. Emergent Marsh Vegetation - dense stands of Scripus, Carex, Eleocharis, both in and out of water, each species pretty much in pure stands. 8. Mud-flats - at the south end of the lagoon, almost completely covered with Potamogeton, either dry or under-water up to 6 inches that is.
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Sullivan 1949 journal 139 Aug 8-18 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co. Calif. 2 Gravel Bar - both in the marsh area at the south end of the lagoon and along Maple Creek at least as far inland as the campsite. - devoid of vegetation. 10 Open water - water without emergent vegetation and deep enough for mallards to tip in- for the most part quite choked with Potamogeton, in the area south of the Highway U.S. 101 bridge across the lagoon - north of the bridge mostly or entirely clear wavy water. Aug 19 Humboldt Co. Calif. - left the Maple Creek campsite about 11 a.m. Proceeded to Orick for lunch and supplies. Lots of English Sparrows at Orick. Left Orick and drove north to the turn-off to Witchsee... Left the truck there and drove on up to the Prairie Creek Redwood State Park where we looked at some Roosevelt Elk Cervus canadensis. Returned to the truck and took off to the East. Very quickly the road starts up steeply. About 400 to 500 feet above the valley floor.
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Quillan 1949 journal 140 Aug 19 Humboldt Co., Calif. we saw a Citellus beckyi along the road in a small clearing in the Redwood forest. Went thru a fine stand of uncult Redwood, and quickly climbed into pure Douglas Fir at about 1200 feet on the ridge. We drove for many miles thru open Douglas fir forest until we suddenly came out onto the open Bald Hills. Right at the edge of the forest - or better, within the first mile along the road I counted 10 sparrow hawks, foraging or resting on phone poles. A little further on at Childs Hill Prairie a flock of 50-75 Ravens stirred up and began circling. We stopped for awhile on the Wride of Schoolhouse Peak - there found a deciduous forest of Garry Oak, some black oak, tan oak Lithocapus denisflora, big leaved maple Acer macrophyllum, wine maple Acer circinum, Douglas fir mixed in, gooseberries, and poison oak Rhus sp? . Leaving these, we passed on through some more open country seeing 3 Mourning Doves, many Ground Squirrels,
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Aug 19 Humboldt Co., Calif.- a Red-Tailed Hawk and Turkey Vulture. Leaving the Bald Hills just north of Coyote Peak, we cut NE to French Camp, about 2 miles NE of Coyote Peak. Set up camp there, in a open park of Incense Cedar Libocedrus decurrens and Douglas Fir. Between 4:30 Pm and Dark I heard or saw Red Crossbills, Steller's GJay, Chestnut-backed Chickadee and Red-breasted Nuthatch. Looked for Bats at dusk, but no luck. Before evening I set out 25 Snap Traps-stating under a mine bark Physocarpus capitatus, working across a grassy meadows, and then up among a rocky area covered by the a thicket of Tan Oak Lithocarpus densiflora. Under the tan oak was poison oak, much leaf litter and fallen branches. Aug 20 French Camp, 3 miles NE Hwy101, Cal. Made no round of my mammal traps, got 9 Peromyscus maniculatus, 1 Sorex sp?, 1 yng Neotoma fuscipes. After shinning the Sorex I went out, crossed the meadow N of camp and went up on the ridge. Near the top it opened out to loose Douglas fir forest with practically no under brush. Saw two
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Sullivan 1949 Aug 20-26 French Camp Habitats 3100 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. For Description/Habitats see Journal pages- p143 p146 p154 p145 p143 p154 p154 p154 142 Tan Oak. Dense Bald- Open Douglas Fir Pine Douglas Bald Topa Fir-Mugle Oaken Forest Grove Canle. Burn. Fir-Forest Forest. 1 Raven. 2 Sparrow Hawk. 3 Red-tailed Hawk. 4 Mourning Dove 5 Steller Jay. 6 Red Crossbill 7 Hutton Vises 8 Cassin Vises 9 Oregon Junco 10 Chestnut-back Chickadee 11 Acorn Woodpecker- Bragdon's Flycatcher 12 Red-breasted Nuttall 13 Blue-sided Flycatcher 14 Band-tail Pigeon 15 Scrub Jay. 16 Red-breast Sapsucker 17 Flicker 18 Western Tanager. 19 Hermit Thrush 20 Hermit Wreble. 21 Wren-Tit 22 Turkey Vulture seen in flight only- 23 Pine Siskin 24 White-wrestled Nuttall 25 Robins seen in flight, are camp. 26 Western Bluebird F
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Gullion 1949 Aug 20-26 For Description of Habitats see Journal pages- p143 p146 p150 p145 p143 p154 p154 Tan Oak. Concise Baya-Douglas Fir--Open Forest Open Grassland Douglas Fir Burn. Pine Douglas Fir Forest Ball Topa. Fir-Maple Forest 28 Mountain Quail X 29 Talmie Warbler. edgys X 30 Brown Creeper X 31 Orange-crown Warbler. X 32 Horned Owl flying thru- X 33 Sharp-shin Hawk. X 34 Sooty Grouse X X 35 Pileated Warbler. X 36 Chipping Sparrow X 37 Meadowlark. X 38 Golden Eagle Salasophorus Hummingbird over X 39 X 40 Pileated Woodpecker X 41 Downy Woodpecker X 42 Wood Pewee X 43 Golden-crowned Kinglet X X 44 Green-backed Goldfinch X 45 American Goldfinch X 46 White-crown Sparrows. X Bussert-backed Thrush. X Pygmy Owl X Western Flycatcher X 142
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Gullian 1949 Journal 143 Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Lizards scurry to shelter but couldn't collect with - nor identify them. Heard Acorn Woodpeckers, washed & into a burn to dry and collected them but was not able to. But did get a ? Sciurus on the edge of the burn. - Examined the Tan Oak habitat - found it to be mostly a successional stage in recovery from fire in Douglas fir forest or growing on soil too rocky for Douglas fir. The under-story of Tan Oak consists mostly of smaller oak, Madron fern, young Douglas firs, an occasional Black Oak Quercus kelloggii and some Poison Oak (see also following page) Pure Douglas Fir forest habitat - consists of Douglas Fir as the single and dominant conifer, with under-story varying from g base dist to Oanothus and Bear Grass Xerophyllum tenax to a mixed under-story forest of Tan Oak, Madrone Arbutus menziesii, Chiriquipin Castanopsis chrysophylla, with salal Gaultheria shallon and bracken fern Pteris aquilina covering the litter of cones, needles leaves and limbs. Also seems to be an occasional black oak in this forest. On the way back to camp I collected at
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Endicott 1949 Journal 144 Aug 20 French Camp 3100 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. - Red-breasted Nuthatch from the lower branches of a large Douglas Fir. Returned to camp, skinned my two specimens. Then went down the slope below camp. Found a much more extensive Tan Oak Habitat in which (in a Douglas Fir Burn) the Tan Oaks are joined by Modone, Golden-cup Oak (Quercus chrysolepis), two Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glandulosa and Arctostaphylos patula ) & Chinquapin (Castanopsis chrysophylla). (The Tan Oak near Camp also has Cornus nuttalli and Berberis aquifolium among its undergrowth). Saw several Acorn Woodpeckers (missed one) and saw, heard and shot at but missed one Scrub Jay in this area. There were also several Steller Jays feeding in this area. Returned to camp empty handed. Left for dinner went with Murray and Pearson to a deserted ranch east on the Fullwood Ranch to the ridge to collect bats. This place was in the midst of a very extensive dense stand of Chinquapin. No bats were taken but I did get two large Bufo boreas. Aug 21 same locality - Ran my trap lines, got 1 dead Peromyscus and 1 live one. Sealed.
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September 1949 Journal 145 Aug 21 French Camp, 3162 ft Humboldt Co, Calif. Traps were sprung. Took up my trap line. Also set out 10 traps last night lay holes in very rocky soil - no signs of trap work, none of the traps even at spring. Knocked down but didn't find a Crossbill, then got a Hermit Thrush in camp. Dropped down into the Tan Oaks below camp. Lots of Acorn Woodpeckers there. Saw a dull plumaged Hermit Warbler, missed a shot at an Olive-sided Flycatcher, collected one of two Wren-tits and saw 3 Band-tailed Pigeons overhead. Also heard and saw Robins and Flickers. Saw a Brush Rabbit on the break of the ridge. The Douglas Fir Burn habitat - is considered to include only the dead burned snags of the fir trees - the understory is considered under the Tan Oak loading. Dropped on down the ridge - saw a bright Hermit Warbler foraging in the tan oaks, had 3 Turkey Vultures soaring close overhead, collected two Sceloporus occidentalis on a dry rocky sparsely grassed slope. Saw a flock of 7 Pine Siskins in the top
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Shulow 1949 Journal. -186- Aug 21 French Camp 3100 ft Humboldt Co., Calif. of a burned snag, heard / Scrub Jay. Worked on down a dry stream bed, collected an Orange-crowned Warbler. Worked on down the slope to 3 large, burned Douglas Fir snags stand. Found ample evidence of Acorn Woodpecker workings there. Also what looks like nesting holes. Collected 1 ? Acorn Woodpecker and then started working up the hill towards camp, cutting to the right. After several hundred yards, after going thru a small stand of pure Madrone, I noticed a stand of Western Azalea Rhododendron occidentale. Going over to it I found a small stream, nevertheless seeping down the hillside. Some eels in it also. Looked for amphibians but found none. A short distance further heard and then collected a white- breasted Nuthatch. Cutting on up the hillside, came to a rock out cropping covered with poison oak - worked up it to the stand of very young Douglas Fir above, move on the flat of the ridge I found a small clump of Black Oaks, really a pure stand. On this slope develops a good Incense Cedar-Douglas Fir Open Forest habitat, in which,
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Julio 1949 Journal 147 Aug 21 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - these two conifers constitute practically the only vegetation. The ground is mostly bare with many stony areas. In some places a little Golden-cup Oak grows in low shrub form. Incidently, I heard a Western Flycatcher in the little draw containing the stream. Returned to camp, shinning the days to be, which kept me busy until supper time. Wanted to set a Trap line down along todays route but didn't have time. Aug 22 same locality - while in camp this morning I collected a Red-breasted Sapsucker. Also took of some photos - used polaroid lens with Koda Chrome on ridge S of camp. Light reading said to use f 8 at 1/50 - for first two shots used 1/25 but for the last used 1/50 - both at f 8. Took a panchromatic shot using red filter of fog in valley to S, and with green filter - of ridge to the S. Lots of Crossbills and Steller Jays in the vicinity this morning. Also heard a Robin and what sounded like a Bluebird. - About an hour later I saw a Bluebird and heard it at the same time. - After lunch I started back over the last part of my yesterdays route- trying to find a lost sweater. Took 49 traps with me. Set 14 traps in
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Sullivan 1949 General. 148 Aug 19- French Camp, 3100 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif - and vicinity, for general area see Coyote Peak Quadrangle AMS #120326 X BM 3127 N Z S BURN WITH TAN OAK RECOVERY FORES X X X X DRY DRAW X X RIDGE DOWNS FIR (GREAT GROUND) FOREST X X X X ROCK PLATFORM INCENSE CEDAR x DOUGLAS FIR OPEN FOREST x CANT BREAK OF SLOPE Meadow TAN OAK FOREST x x X x x x x x x x x x x x x x x STREAM SALMONDALE CREEK x x x TRAIL campground Black Oak Grove - This ground of very Douglas TREES TAN OAK FOREST with DOUBLE SLOPE WIRE GRASS CLEARING ROCK x X x x x ROAD. X BM 3127 +++++ TRAP LINE
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Gullion 1949 Journal 149 Aug 22 French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. various locations in the Incense Ceds - Douglas Fir forest above the break of the slope- dropped down to the Acorn Woodpecker snags, no sweater- returning to the vicinity of the small Stream, I collected 2 Reshonorius on the edge of a wire grass opening. Also saw the hind end of a Black-tailed Deer think it was a truck, found bear scats in the same opening that the lizards were taken in. (Got a skink on top of the ridge while coming down- also a Hutton Vises ). Set 8 traps in the stuff along the stream- which incidently includes maiden-hair fern (Adiantum pedatum #). Now I am going to set 2 traps along the burned log between the stream and the wire grass opening where I will set 7 traps in various locations. Found two chinquapins and 1 madrone with burned out insides - may be good bat trees. Shot 1 of 2 wren-tits on the edge of the wire-grass clearing, Also saw a 4-5 inch Blue-tailed skink in same area that I collected the yellow backed Reshonorius. The wren-tits were on the edge of a solid stand of Tan Oak. Collected the other wren-tit a moment later.
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Gullon 1949 Journal 156 Aug 22 French Camp 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Last trap in today's line has an orange tag - is under Tan Oak at edge of Wire-grass clearing. Washed back up towards camp, following a deer trail, and setting traps 17 to 20 paces apart- every trap marked with a cairn. About 200 yards from camp I flushed a covey of 6-8 Mountain Quail, collected two birds in adult plumage out of the flock. The others moved away slowly enough that I probably could have gotten at least two more. Aug 23 same locality - Went over my trap line this morning - caught 13 Peromyscus - all very brown individuals - in habitats ranging from the bases of Incense Cedar in very dry situations, to poison oak covered rock outcroppings, Tan Oak edge on wire-grass, and even mossy stream side with maiden-hair fern and Western Azalea overhead. Lost two traps to larger animals, the string was left on one and only oatmeal marked the other position. A third empty trap had the string broken and had been gnawed on considerably. Ants were very active and had cut up two or 3 mice pretty badly. Since it was foggy I saw no reptiles. Returning to camp &
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Gulliver 1949 journal Aug 23 French Camp, 2100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- Started skinning yesterday take. A Crossbill chirped from a nearby Cedar- it was taken. Later in the day Steller Jays were screaming in the Douglas Fir forest just W of the meadow North of camp- I was not able to see the object of their anger. About 12 birds were involved. About 4 p.m. I took a Vermilt Warbler just a few feet from the skinning tent. It was feeding in a Douglas Fir with a mob of Chestnut-backed Chickadees & Red-breasted Nuthatches. I shot I saw another Vermilt Warbler- nearly. that I heard flying squirrels last night Aug 24 Same locality - During the evening I heard a Screeched Owl near camp. Early this morning a Sharp-shinned hawk flew over the meadow N of camp. Starting down my trap line, I saw- 3 Mountain Quail in clearing just below camp. Further down were Acorn Woodpeckers and Steller Jays fighting for possession of a black oak. Woodpeckers seemed to have the upper hand. Still further down, on the break of the slope, & @ gang of Steller Jays seemed to be excited about something- a chipmunk was also chirping. Saw a Vermilt Thrush foraging under the dense Cedar-Douglas Fir forest. To the break of the # slope I have caught 1 Clethraionomys and 2 Peromyscus.
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Gullion 1949 Journal -152- Aug 24 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - heard a Flicker calling from the bwn of camp. Also something, probably deer, crashing around in the woods just below the Black Oak area. Dropped on down to the end of my trap line in the Wiregrass clearing - took more Peromyscus, all brown - I was alive so I released it. Caught 2 Gopher Snakes in the wire-grass - cracked my right knee missing another. Heard Band-tailed Pigeons, 2 White-breasted Nuthatches and a Flicker. Going down the little stream after the flicker - which I didn't get to - I found a likely looking salamander area - collected 2 small Plecotus and 1 large Dicamptodon larva out of two pools. Came back up to the source of the stream, heard Chestnut-backed Chickadees in Chinquapin & Madrone - examined likely looking bat trees - found no bats. Collected the rest of my mammal traps, also a Scelogorus occidentalis. Returned to camp, preserved specimens, put up a weasel - but left two from the 22nd, and a Crossbill taken yesterday. About 4 p.m. I went with Cogswell to Coyote Peak. Saw a covey of about 18-20 Mountain Quail at the turn of the road. Further on, on the bald top, saw a Sparrow Hawk.
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Sullivan 1949 Journal 153 Aug 24 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - On top of Coyote Peak we flushed 2 Blue Grosbeak, just below the top were 2 Chipping Sparrows. On the forest edge along the E side of the peak were Juncos, Pileated Warblers, Chest- nut-backed Chickadees, and an Empidonax flycatcher. A Red-tailed Hawk was seen flying over the bald further north. Going down the road towards Schoolhouse Paddle, we stopped at Schoolhouse Pasture and took photos. Returning along the road a Blue Grosbeak popped up out of the dust in the road into a nearby Harry Oak - I collected it. On the way back to camp, flushed a Flicker, but failed to collect it. Returning to camp, In camp heard a Horned Owl and then a Pygmy Owl. Dr. Pearson and Murray saw 3 Kite hawks pass over the meadow N of camp. The Open Grasslands - are those areas on French Camp Ridge that are ungrazed, have a natural stand of bunch grass, with various herbaceous plants, some juncus, and a brush border consisting mostly of Tan Oak, # Lithocarpus densiflora, New-bark Physocarpus capitatus, Western Azalea Rhododendron occidentale and Ocean Spray Holodiscus discolor. Also with braken fern
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Sullio 1949 journal 154 Aug 24 French Camp, 3/00 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. - scattered around. Bald Top. - is the grazed grasslands typical of this area, particularly about 2 miles further west. I have had little occasion to visit them, but what I have seen seems to be short grasses (grazed) with scattered clumps of Gray Oak Quercus garryana, Myrtle Umbellularia californica, Broad-leaf Maple Acer macrophyllum and some other deciduous shrubs. In damper south to west facing slopes are patches of bracken fern - which also extend onto barren north slopes. On the westerly slopes with camp soil are thick growths of Douglas Fir, and on the east to north facing slopes Douglas Fir dominates everything. The edge consists of Hazel, young Douglas Fir, Rio-bark and some Ocean Spray. Aug 25 French Camp, 3/00 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. - During the morning while I skinned the grouse I heard a Downy Woodpecker, Green-backed Goldfinch Stelmas Garp and Crossbills around camp. Left camp with Bogswell and Murray, drove to The N side of a point 1 mile south of Coyote Peaks. There found a Fir-Maple Forest - in which the Broad-leaf Maple grew big and robust with scattered Douglas
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Kuller 1949 Journal 155 Aug 25 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Tiro about. The understory consists of Serviceberry Amelanchier florida, Ocean Spray Holodiscus discolor, Western Hazel Corylus scotata, Cascar Rhamnus purshiana with Bracken and Sword Fern on the ground. Lots of deep leaf litter and many fallen, rotten logs. Found 8 Ensatina and 2 Aneides under the bark or in the rotten wood of 3 of these logs. On the edge of this Maple-Fir forest are Tan Oaks and Darry Oaks. Also some Bay or Myrtle Umbellularia californica scattered around. Collected a Stella Jay in this forest. Left there and went to the woods around the spring on the W side of Coyote Creek. There again was a quite typical Fir-Maple Forest with some very large Bay, Mahron and Chinquapin Trees mixed in. One Chinquapin I saw was about 26-30 inches thick at the base and 100-125 feet high—very straight with foliage only in the crown. Heard Chestnut-backed Chickadees, saw Stellar Jays collected a young Robin and heard others. (There is also a lot of Vine Maple Acer circinatum in this forest). We left there and while Cogswell chased a Meadowlark in the saddle south of Schoolhouse Peak I went up the slope towards the south
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Kuller 1949 journal 156 Aug 25 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - of that saddle, saw a Golden Eagle in very fine immature plumage come over the hill from the east and sail off south over the Bald Hills south of Coyote Peak. Tried to collect a Sparrow Hawk but failed. Back in camp, about 7 p.m. a ? Horrel Owl was hooting (who who-a-who-who) in the fir forest across the meadow N of Camp. While Cogswell went after her I wandered down the road to the east, saw a Pileated Warbler, missed a shot at a Hermit Thrush heard a ? Horrel Owl down by the Black Oak area (see map p. 148). As I got closer I also heard a ? answering in the same area. Moving down, I saw the ? fly into a big fir - I started hooting and after about 2 minutes he flew to a nearby big fir, then dropped into the top of a small cedar, stopping about 50 feet away. At that range a #6 load brought him to the ground. Aug 26 Humboldt Co., California - Left French Camp about 12:30 p.m., drove to Martin's Ferry, going for several miles through creaks to pure Chinquapin forest, and then dropping into a mixed Chinquapin- Madrone nearly pure Douglas Fir forest, on down to a Chinquapin-Madrone
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Gullion 1949 Journal 157 Aug 26 Humboldt Co. Calif. forest, in which Broad-leaf Maple became more common near the valley bottom; with Alder coming in just above the river. On the E side of the river (Klanath) was a broad-leaved sclerophyll forest composed mostly of madrone, with chinquapin and bay and a live oak filling in. That graded into a nearly pure Black Oak forest, which later graded into a Fir forest with Tan Oak understory similar to that at French Camp. In the Poopa Valley we saw quite a bit of Pigeon-Pine Pinus sabiniiana. Near Willow Creek we saw a great deal of Ponderosa Pine on the valley flat. After getting supplies at Willow Creek, we drove to the ranger station at Salyer, to learn of good camp sites. They suggested Raccoon Creek, on the east side of the Trinity River 3 miles N of Willow Creek. Driving in there I saw a Western Tanager on the valley flat. As we rounded the turn into the Odon Creek valley, a covey of Cuffed Grouse ran across the road - I was collected. At camp Dr Pearson found 2 Dicamptodon latvale in the stream and
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Gullion 1949. Journal 158 Aug 26 Humboldt Co., California I collected them. Later observed a Kingfisher, a Flicher, and several Jays down the creeks away. Aug 27 3mi N Willow Creek 700ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Left camp about 7a.m. took the road north towards Horse Lints Creek. Passed out of the Maple-Alder Stream Bottoms (composed of Broad- leaved Maple Acer macrophyllum & Red Alder Alnus rubra primarily, with scattered Douglas Firs. Understory of stink current Ribes lacustreum, Hazel-nut Corylus, Vine Maple Acer circinatum, Five finger, Sword and wood Fern (Aspidium sigidium), Weaton Syringa (Philadelphus gordonianus) Aralia californica into a Mixed Forest - of Douglas Fir, Golden-cup Oak, Madrone, Chinquapin and Tan Oak. with an understory of poison oak, dogwood (Cornus nuttelli). Some Black Oak is found on the upper edge of this belt, increasing in purity up slope developing into the next type. On the valley floor the habitat also includes Manzanita Arctostaphylos manzanita and Darry Oak Quercus garryana. Further along the road and higher, still on a WSW (250) slope, I came into the
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develops into the tree fully as large as most of the Firs. This a preference to call Douglas Fir-Tan Oak Forest. There is some Chinquapin and little Madrone mixed in this forest. The understory is mostly young Tan Oaks and firs, Some Broken Fern and a little Evergreen Huckleberry. In the habitat I have seen junco's, oven birds, Pileated Woodpeckers, Hermit Thrush and Blue-tailed Skink's. This also Salal and Bearberries as ground cover in this forest, with Grapes occasionally showing. Dropping down to Maple Sp on the inside of the ridge I collected a Water Snake, a at the spring collected a Steller Jay and heard chipin's but didn't take any. Looked for amphibians some, but none. The forest here again fits my Pure Douglas forest, with a few maples (A macrophyllum) about spring area. I looked for amphibs some more, found larvae in the gravel under the moss covered rocks. This Maple Camp Spring must be the only water for quite a distance, since I have been here 2-3 pm. both Chickadee, Steller Jayp, Hermit Thrushes, Empidonax and Red-breasted Nuthatches have all come to water here of this stream is bordered by Salal, Evergreen Huckleberry, a dogwood like plant. Cornus canalis.
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Dullon 1949 Aug 26-Sept 5 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. (Raccoon Creek Camp) Habitats. For description of habitats see journal- p/158 p/158 p/160 p/160 p/162 p/165 p/166 p/169 p/169 p/170 Red-elder Stream Bottom Mixed Forest Oak Forest Pine Douglas Fir Forest Douglas Fir-Tan Oak Forest Brush Bottom Bar Tan Oaks. Douglas Cedar-Douglas Fir Open Forest Pine-Cedar Open Forest Buffel Brouse X 2 Steller Jay X 2 X 5 X 3 X 2 X 3 X 2 X 2 X X Belded Kingfisher X 1 X 2 4 Fliche X X X X Pupping Owl X X Sharp-shin Hawk. X X Empidomax Flycatcher X X X X Chatnut-bak Chisicle X X X X X X/ Piloted Woodpecker. X 1 X X X Hersen-tit X X Wilton Vireo X X Western Tanagers X X X Downy Woodpeckers X X X 4 Swainson Thrush. X X X X 5 Golden-crown Kinglet X Warbling Kene X Cassin Vireo X X X X Oregon Junco. X X X X Turkey Culture F over XF over XF F Pililated Wabler X X X X X Red-breasted Nutthold X X X X 22 Hermit Thrush X X X X Chat X X Gering-crown Warbler X X Spotted Towhee X X X Song Sparrow X X Green-backed Goldfinch
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Gullion 1949 flying over For description of habitats see journal - 159 p158 p158 p160 p160 p162 p165 p166 p169 p169 p170 Riparian Bottom Wetland Flood Pure Douglas Douglas Fir Brunch Gravel Tan Oak. Downy Cedar Douglas Fir- Pine-Cedar- Forest Forest Fir Forest Tan Oak Forest Bottom Bar Open Forest Open Forest Robin X Black-headed Grosbeak. X Valley Quail X House Finch X Lark Sparrow X Scrub Jay X Wood Pewee X Spotted Sandpiper X Cedar Waxwing F X Black Phoebe. X 19 Morning Dove X aug. White 30 crow Sparrow X Yellow-throat X Purple Finch X Hairy Woodpecker X Winter Wren X American Merioner X Olive-sided Flycatcher X Vaux Swift over Sparrow Hawk. F over Selaphorus Hummingbird X 30 Screech Owl. X Bush-Tit X American Goldfinch X aug 31 Green-winged Teal. X Parus Sei sori X 54 Tree Swallow F
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Gullion: 1949 F. flying over. For description of habitats see Journal- p/158 p/158 p/160 p/160 p/162 p/165 p/166 p/169 p/169 p/170 159 Stream-Older Bottom Mid Forest Red Forest Pine Douglas Fir Forest Douglas Fir- Twin Oak Forest Brush Bottom Gravel Bar Tan Oals. Spruce Cedar- Douglas & W- Open Forest. Pine-Cedar, Open Forest. Mountain Chickadee X Mountain Quail X Audubon Warbler X Acorn Woodpecker. X X Dipper X Crossbill X Brown Creeper- X X Red-tailed Hawk. F Band-tail Pigeon F X F X Sazuli Bunting X Savannah Sparrow Cooper Hawks X Great Blue Heron X Horned Owl X Townsend Solitaire X Western Flycatcher X
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Sullori 1949 Journal 160 Aug 27 Born N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - edge of an Oak Forest. This forest is composed principally of Black Oak Quercus kelloggii with many trees of Madrone mixed in and at least on its lower edge, scattered Douglas Fir. The ground is deeply covered with leaf litter and the sparse understory consists of Tan Oak, Poison Oak, Braken Fern and scattered small Pines. Higher up Golden-cup Oak Quercus chrysolepis joins this habitat formation. Incidentally, just a little ways from camp, in Mixed Forest on Chinquapins I saw two Gray Squirrels, about 100 yards apart. Also lots of deer tracks, raccoon tracks, lizard and snake marks on the dusty road. At the [illegible] Creek Trail turn off, a Brush Rabbit scotered for shelter. This is on the edge of Oak Forest. Following up the [illegible] Creek Trail, the mixed forest becomes more pure Black Oak-Madrone and sedge grass _______________ (with jutting stones that I was unable to find in the French Camp area) replaces poison oak a broken fernsso the ground cover. Still further up a Pure Douglas Fir Forest develops with shrun Tan Oak as about the only understory plant. Lots of Stellar Jay, Chestnut-backed
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Chickadees in this area also saw an Empidonax flycatcher, a Paleated Woodpecker and a pair of Downy Woodpeckers, 3 of which was collected. [illegible] Nutton Vireos. Also had a Swainson Thrush foraging in oak leaf litter, and later saw it. Collected 1 2 Swainson Thrushes foraging in small fires on the edge of a extensive Pine Doug Fir forest. Working on up the trail Oak forest alternates with Douglas Fir. In one oak forest I collected a warbling vireo that was foraging in the [illegible] crowns, as am high enough on this S slope of Waterman Ridge that to see over the ridge to the S, I came upon old up Oaks & mixed in the Black Oak forest. Also Tan oak. understory (the ladden-cup). Oak Trees a very large). In an area I saw several Sceloporus, but was not able to take one. also heard a Cassin Vireo singing calling over a period 5 minutes or so. It called steadily. Using a pygmy call trying to entice the vireo into range for collecting, got an answer from a Pygmy Owl somewhere down slope. Also at a flicker in this area, and a Paleated Woodpecker heard not too far away. Still further along the trail a small bald with some lizards scurrying for shelter. Also Juncos Chestnut-backed Chickadees and Nutton Vireos in the surrounding Douglas Fir forest (also Mosquitoes). In the moister draws along this trail are slender tall Broad-leaved just a short distance below the place where the trail hits crest of the ridge I saw a Paleated Woodpecker and heard a Red-breasted Nut-hatch. By some the trail reaches the ridge the Black Oak has played out, and is replaced by Tan Oak, forming a forest about equivalent to the Douglas Fir Forest of French Camp (See journal p. 143). The understory here is Tan Oaks, Madsons, and evergreenuckleberry, also Dogwood (C. nuttallii). Along this area I flushed a & point Black-tail Deer. This forest gradually changes from one in which in which Douglas Fir is dominant to one in which [illegible]
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Gullion 1949 Journal 161 Aug 27 Boni N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Chickadees in this area, also saw an Empidonax Flycatcher, and a pair of Downy Woodpeckers, the ? of which was collected. Heard Hutton Vireo. Also saw a [illegible] Thrush foraging in oak leaf litter, and later saw T. Collected 1 of 2 Vermit Thrasher foraging in small pines on the edge of an extensive Pure Douglas Fir Forest. Working on up the trail, oak forest alternates with pure Douglas Fir forest. In one oak forest I collected a Warbling Vireo that was foraging in the Black Oak crowns. When I am high enough on this S slope of Waterman Ridge that I can see over the ridge to the south, (2000 ft?) I came upon Golden-cup Oak Quercus chrysolepis masked in the Black Oak forest (and it was here only?). Also Tan Oak in the understory (the Golden-cup Oak trees are very large). In this area I saw several Sceloprus, but was not able to take any, also heard a Cassin Vireo calling for a period of 5 minutes or so. It called steadily. Using a Pygmy owl call trying to entice the vireos into range for collecting, I got an answer from a Pygmy Owl somewhere down slope. Also a Flicker in this area, and a Pileated Woodpecker had not too far away. Still further along the side is a small "bald" - with some lizard scurrying
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Gullion 1949 Journal 162 Aug 27 3 miles N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co. Calif. for shelter, Oregon-Juncos, Chestnut-backed Chickadees and Hutton Violets in the surrounding can hear a Selasphorus hummingbird Douglas Fir forest (also mosquitoes). In the more moist (?) draws along this trail are slender, tall Broad-leaved Maples. Just a short distance below the place where the trail hits the crest of the ridge (2300 feet) I saw a Pileated Woodpecker and heard a Red- breasted Nuthatch. By time the trail reaches the crest of the ridge the Black Oak has pretty much played out, and is replaced by Tanoak, forming a forest about equivalent to the Pure Douglas Fir Forest of French Camp (see journal p. 143). The understory here is Tanoak, Madrone and Evergreen Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum), also Dogwood (C. nuttalli). Along this area I flushed a 4 point Black- tailed Deer. This forest gradually changes from one in which Douglas Fir is dominant to one in which Tanoak develops into the trees fully as large as most of the Douglas Firs (2600 ft.). This I prefer to call Douglas Fir-Tanoak Forest. There is some Chinquapin and a little Madrone mixed in this forest. The understory is mostly young Tanoak and firs. Some Bracken Fern and a little Evergreen Huckleberry, Vac ovatum
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Journal 163 Sep 27 3 min N Willow Creek, 700 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. There is also Salal and Manzanita (species not determined) as ground cover in this forest, with Oregon Grape (Berberis aquifolium) occasionally showing. (A little further up the slope it looked as if the manzanita with several cleanthus may form a quite definite chaparral on the south slope at the 2600 ft, elevation.) In this habitat I have seen Juncoes, Oven-tits, Pileated Warblers, Swainson Thrushes and Blue-tailed Skink. Dropping down to Maple Camp Spring (2200 ft) on the N side of the ridge I collected a Garter Snake, and at the spring collected a Steller Jay and heard chipmunks but didn't try to get any. The forest here again fits my Pure Douglas Fir Forest, with a few mapled (A. macrophyllum) about the spring area. I looked for amphibians, found 1 adult and 6 larval Cychotriton in the gravel under the moss covered rocks. This Maple Camp Spring must be the only water for quite a distance, for since I have been here (2 to 3 p.m.) Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Steller Jays, Swainson Thrushes, Empidonax Flycatchers and Red-breasted Nuthatches have all come to drink or bathe here. Also the only chipmunks I have heard in the forest have been here. This stream is bordered
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Sullivan 1949 Journal. 164 Aug 27 3miles N Willow Creek, 700 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. My Salad, Evergreen Huckleberry and a Dogwood Cornus sessilis. Until I dug into this stream, the exposed water was limited to a few small pools, less than 1 foot across and not over 3 inches deep, otherwise the water was completely concealed under moss covered stones that were flat, 1-2 inches thick by 4-8 inches long. There seemed to be a great abundance of an aquatic leopard in the same modest, as water sealed, situation in which I found Lychnostrotum. After photographing this area I took off for camp. Near where I found the Raster Snake, I collected a Gerrhonotus. On further down the trail I got another Gerrhonotus and while passing through the Douglas Fir-Tan Oak Forest I heard a number of rustlings which I think were skinks. Just before I left the Douglas Fir with Tan Oak understory I badly shot up but collected a Gerrhonotus. Entering the Black Oak Forest a few feet further on I started finding Sceloporus, and was able to collect two. In one Douglas Fir forest without understory a Gray Squirrel leaped onto the trunk of a fir and quickly ran up to the top of the tree. The further I went down hill through the Oak
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Gullion 1949 journal 165. Aug 27 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Forest the more abundant Sceloprus became, Shortly before I hit the road, and even along the road almost to Coon Creek, I was flushing at least 1 Sceloprus every 10 feet. I returned to camp at 5:10 p. m. Aug 28 same locality - spent most of the day in camp skinning and preparing yesterdays specimens. in the evening I collected 1 Myctis californicus and 1 Bufo boreas, both in camp. Aug 29 same locality - Drove over to highway and went into area 1 mi. N of Willow Creek. There is a Walnut Orchard bordered on the south by Brush Bottom. This latter is composed of open grassy places scattered among Blackberry (Rubus occurrens) tangles around 2 willow Salix & ripari (?) and scattered Alders, Black Cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), Locusts Robinia sp. ? Black Oak & Blue Alar Cambricus glauca. Closr to the river is Bay Umbellifera californica) Ash (Fraxinus oregona ) and scattered Madrones, also Broad-leaved Maples. Holodiscus discolor becomes the underbrush. In the Willow Blackberry of this habitat I have seen or heard, Robins, Chats, House Finches, Orange-crowned Warblers, Lark and Song Sparrows, Spotted Towhees, Scrub Jayp, Downy Woodpeckers, Valley Quail, and Green-backed Flycatcher, also an Empidonax, probably Traillii.
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Travel Box consists mostly of exposed ground areas along Trinity Rd. Some herbaceous plants, but most vegetative cover is found in Two willows Salix [illegible] and Salix [illegible] The Brush Bottom under the Day-Oak-Cottonwood wood along the Trinity River has Snow-berry, Western Syringa, [illegible] as understory in addition to the aforementioned plants, with [illegible] growing on many of bushes. Hazel Co. and an occasional Honeysuckle [illegible] also present in this growth.
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July 1949 Journal 166 Aug 29 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Brush Bar consists mostly of exposed gravel and sandy areas along the Trinity River. There are some herbaceous plants (legumes) but most vegetative cover is found in two willows Salix hindsiana and melanopsis. The Brush Cotton under the Bay-Oak-Cottonwood woodland along the Trinity River has Snow- Berry, Western Syringa, California Coffee-Berry, as understory in addition to the above mentioned plants, with Grape Vitus californica growing on many bushes. Hazel Corylus avellana and an occasional Honeysuckle Lonicera hispidula is also present in this growth. - I collected a Sharp-shinned Hawk, Chat and Lark Sparrow from this area. (Coming in from camp this morning I collected a Brush Rabbit, saw another, also saw a Mourning Dove. Returning to camp about 11:30 a.m. I saw 1 and probably 2 Oglesby Constrictors in a brushy area, but was unable to collect either of them. In camp during the afternoon I took 2 Rana boylii and 1 larva Dicamptodon from Coon Creek. Aug 30 - same location - Returned with Cogswell to the area just north of Willow Creek. On the way over saw a Mourning Dove in a
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July 1949 Journal 168 Aug 31 3mi N. Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Cal - Funded 24-26 Yellow Warbler from Oregon patch. berry tangles. Also numerous Goldfinches in the area. Robins were also feeding in Blackberries. Saw a Swainson's Thrush. About 11:20 a.m. a flock of about 20 Waxwings came into feed, I collected an immature from the flock. 2 Wood Peewees were feeding in the area. Cogwell finally got to a Gray Squirrel was seen working along the river bank, from tree to tree. Saw 3 Green-winged Teal on the Trinity River and several Ground Squirrels (all small) and 1 junco just N of the Lazy G Ranch. Talked to some PG+E linemen about reptiles. They reported killing a Rattlesnake near a sawmill a couple of miles W of the Brizzard Store in Willow Creek just a few days ago. They said also that last year Rattlers were often encountered along their power line from Willow Creek to Salger, but that they have not seen many this year. They reported having seen a Black + White Banded King Snake on the highway S of Willow Creek last week, and that both King Snakes and
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Sep 30 1949 Journal 169 Aug 31 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. The Trinity River in the Willow Creek area. I collected a Sceloporus from the Racer locality, but no racers. Brought back a shed skin that Murray identified as a Coluber Constrictor skin. it came from the Walnut Orchard N of Willow Creek. Sept 1 same locality - heard a Swainson Thrush in camp this morning, also collected a Rana aurea just W of camp. Went up Branman Mtn road W of Willow Creek. Stopped at a ridge with (1000 ft) Ponderosa Pine, Incense Cedar, some Douglas Fir with understory of Bay and Hairy Oak and underbrush of Ceanothus cuneatus , Poison Oak, Ocean Spray, Coffee-berry, and Ericidictyon. Head our first elevation here -> Stopped at 2800 ft on the same road, found a Tanoak forest (2600 ft) in an old Douglas Fir burn or cut over area. Collected a Chipmunk, saw fajicos and Pileated Woodpeckers, heard a Pygmy Owl. Tan Oak Forest is same as that for French Camp (Journal p. 143). Incense Cedar-Douglas Fir Open Forest is essentially the same as that at French Camp, except with some Hairy Oak in it. This latter habitat was found around Johnson Prairie 4 miles WNW of Willow Creek at 3500 feet elevation. Took a Pine Siskin in this later area, also took
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Gullion 1949 journal 170 Sept 1 3 mis N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. a young Ground Squirrel in the cut-over Pure Douglas Fir forest just N of Johnson Prairie. This Pure Douglas Fir Forest is essentially the same as previously described (Journal p. 143 ) but with the addition of a few Ponderosa Pines scattered around. Went from Johnson Prairie, N to a little East fork pond at the head of Three Creeks. Found it filled with very little water-- most of basin filled with Carex, a grass and juncus. Lots of Byella in Carex. Surrounding forest is composed of Port Orford Cedar Chamae- laurocerasiana, Douglas Fir (cedar Ced.), Chinquapin, Tan Oak (some), Madrone with understory of Salal, Bracken Fern and Prince's Pine Chimaphila umbellata and Dwarf Oregon (Berberis nervosa). The Pine-Cedar Open Forest is composed of Sugar, Jeffrey and Knobcone Pines Pinus lambertiana, jeffreyi and tuberculata with some Douglas Fir & Incense Cedar. 3 Manzanitas Arctostaphylos manzanita, canescens and nevadensis, Huckleberry Oak and Golden-cup Oaks (Quercus vaccinifolium + chrysolepis), Tan Oak (litho- carpus [and densiflores]) and Ceanothus cuneatus for the rather low 1 to 4 foot high understory. There were many Chipmunks with high squeaky voices, also (Esonomus)
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Mtn Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, a Spotted Towhee, Turkey Klutters, Tree Swallows and an Audubon Warbler. This la habitat was found at about the 3500 foot elevation on Branson Mountain 3 mi WNW of Willow Creek. Earlier an Acorn Woodpecker was heard in the Johnson Prairie area, a Chickadee was collected just down stream west from the lake at the head of East Three Creek. Also a Scleropus graciosa was taken in cut-over area about 1/4 mile north of Johnson Prairie. For several trees of Western Yew Pure Douglas Fir Forest just south of the lake at the head of
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Gullon 1949 journal. 171 Sept 1 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Mtn Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatcher, a Spotted Towhee, Turkey Vulture, Tree Swallows and an Audubon Warbler. This last habitat was found at about the 3500 foot elevation on Bannan Mtn (4 mi #NW of Willow Creek) and became more pure forest of this type, that is with Douglas Fir dropping out, as we approached the top. Earlier in the afternoon an Acorn Woodpecker was heard in the Johnson Prairie area, a Douglas Chickadee was collected just down the stream bed from the lake at the head of the east fork of Three Creeks. A Sceloporus graciosus was taken in cut-over area about 1/4 mile N of Johnson Prairie. Found several trees of Western Yew (Taxus brevifolia) in the Pure Douglas Fir Forest just south of the lake at the head of the east fork of Three Creeks. Saw old bear tracks in the mud at this lake and fresh der(Bobcat), cat, and raccoon tracks in the same mud. Also saw fresh deer and bear tracks in the dust of the road near the summit of Bannan Mtn. On the way down, we saw a lot of Port Orford Cedar along Bannan Creek at the 7400 foot elevation and saw at least 3 Mtn Quail along the road just E of these. Also saw
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Sullivan 1949 Journal 172 Sept 1 3 mi, N Willow Creek, 100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. a Red-tailed Hawk gliding westward over the ridge W of the summit of Brannan Mtn. Sept 2 Same locality - Stayed in camp and skinned all morning. Collected a Diampetador eating a Thamnohirs elegans at noon and planned on going to Brannan Mtn tonight for an evening of Trapping and hunting with Coggswell but Murray carried the truck keys with him when he left so we were not able to go. Sept 3 Same locality - Went out to the Patterson Ranch (see next page) and hunted. Collected a Savannah Sparrow from a group of a dozen or so in a Corn-field, then collected a Mourning Dove just S of his ranch along a Mazzinta - Madrone thicket. Saw both a Sparrow and Sharp-shinned Hawk on the Patterson Ranch, and flushed a Cooper Hawk when I shot the Dove. Went on down to the bridge and turned up the Campbell Ridge Road going SE from the bridge. Saw a Mountain Quail, heard a Black-throated Gray Warbler and saw 8 Turkey Vultures circling low. Returned to camp and skinned the two birds. Left camp about 3:15 p.m. for a
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Dullion Aug 26 Sept Journal. -173- 3mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif.- Map of areas visited from Raccoon Creek Camp. EUREKA U.S.299 WILLow CREEK THREE CREEK 3 CRICK ROAD 2600ft. 1470ft. Groomman Creek. Bridal Veil area. 1000 ft. E FORK 3500ft. 3300ft.- Pond. Johnson 3400 ft. Dunnam 3700 ft. Mtn. 3957 ft. X-Collecting locations. TRINITY RIVER Bridge. Pattern Road. Raccoon Creek 3mi. N Willow Brook, 700 ft. WATERMAN RIDGE 2000ft.-2800 ft. 2700ft. Maple Camp Spring 3200ft.
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Gullion 1949 Journal 174 Sept 3 3 mi. N. Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - night on Branman Mountain NW of Willow Creek. On the way up the Three Creek Road, at the 2700 foot elevation, a coyote was seen in the road. A little ways below that a bunch of about 20 Band- tailed Pigeons flushed out of the brush. Also saw what may have been a Spotted Owl at that same place. Found it was 8.7 miles by road from Willow Creek to the top of Branman Mtn. Saw two big forest fires, one towards the Hoopa Reservation and one SE of Salyers about 2 ridges. Set out 10 mouse traps and one rat on the north side of the 3957 foot summit. Dropped back down to the first saddle W of the summit and set two steel traps, a rat and a Schuyler trap in this area. Heard a pair of Wren-Tits calling back and forth on the SE slope of the summit humps. Moved on to the 2nd saddle W of the summit and set up camp, at 3700 ft. Put out 1 mouse rat trap, 2 Schuybers and -20 snap traps. Collected 1 of the squeaky voiced Chipmunks (E. sonomae). During the evening I worked down the road W of camp, called in a Pinyon Owl but was not able to get it. Was bothered by Flying Squirrels. also saw an Olive-sided Flycatcher.
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Journal 1949 Sept 3 3mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. heard a [illegible] Owl and 2 away down in the valley N of the ridge, heard two Scream Owls on the crest of the ridge and then returned to camp. During the night, it was bright moonlight, I took a Bufo from my sleeping bag, and latter a Flying Squirrel was on the trunk of the Incense Cedar, about 4 feet from my head. Heard no animal calls during the night. Sept 4 Same locality - Up early this morning and out. Checked Traps - caught 1 Neotoma and 1 immature Peromyscus in the traps near camp, and 1 Neotoma and 2 Peromyscus in the line on the north side of the summit. Returned to camp, collected a Sciurus from the lower branches of a Jeffrey Pine. Worked the south slope of the summit area for birds. Had a long conversation with a Pygmy Owl saw or heard at least 6 Mountain Chickadees and a like number of Red-breasted Nutatches. Encountered quite a gang of Vermit Thrushes including one family group, collected 1. Heard a Cassin Vireo and a Black Bear in the Tan Oak forest SW of camp. On the slope S of the summit saw a flock of about 15 Cedar Waxwings, 2 or 3 Robins,
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Dullon 1949 journal 176 Sept 4 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. /Townsend Solitaire and/ Western Tanager. Later I heard 2 Spotted Towhees, collected 1 of at least 2 Townsend Solitaires, heard and saw a Purple Finch. Last night I saw an Olive-sided Flycatcher in the draw W of the summit. We left the top about 10 a.m. (I saw an Orange-crowned Warbler nearby where we camped). On the way down we watched a Doe and 2 well grown Black Tailed Deer fawns bounce down the road and off into the brush. Returned to Raccoon Creek Camp and shinned out the several collected specimens. Sept 5 Red Mtn., 4 mi. S Hayfork, 5300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif. Left the Willow Creek area early this morning, picked up supplies at Weaver- ville and had lunch at Hayfork. Saw a flock of about 20 Brewer Blackbirds just E of Hayfork. Going up Salt Creek S of Hayfork I saw a Brown Towhee along the road. Between Douglas City and Hayfork we saw a 2 fork horned Black-tail Deer feeding on young shoots of Mary Oak, and later we saw 2 quite large fawns also browsing on oak, as a doe with 2 smaller fawns stood back in the woods. Coming up the Philpot Creek valley we saw an Audubon
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Gullion 1949 Journal. -177- Sept 5 Red Mtn., 14 mi. S Hayfork, 5300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif. Washer at the top of the grade, and coming from Philpot Creek & Rattlesnake Creek on the Red Mtn. road we flushed 2 Valley Quail at the 4300 ft. elevation on Rattlesnake Ridge. A ways above these a spotted fawn bounced along the road ahead of us. We finally found a small spring to camp by in the draw just east of the point 5424 ft about halfway between Duba Bella and Red Mtn. (U.S. G.S. Abaglin Quadrangle, edition of 1935) I set out 1 small steel, 3 rat traps and 6 Schuyfers for flying squirrels, placing them all about 5 to 7 feet above the ground and large trees scattered in the woods around the spring. Also set a Schuyfer and a snap trap by the log at the head of my bed. After supper I went hunting and collected a Poorwill on the Canthus covered slope in the saddle just south of camp. Flushed out a Mourning Dove from a Douglas Fir between the Cold Spring Campground and the head of the valley along Philpot Creek 1/2 mi Peanut S of Hayfork. Sept 6 same locality - Took a Flying Squirrel last night in a trap set in camp baited with a june- also took a Townsend Chipmunk in a rat
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Million 1949 Sept 5-11 Red Mtn, 1/4 mi, S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. -5300 ft- f = flying over For description of habitats see journal pages- p181 p180 p183 p186 Rearooths Brickland Fir-Bedder Pine-Orch Forest Correlation Brush Batten Ridge Turkey Vulture F F F Poorwill X Steller Jay X Mtn Chickadee X X Red-breasted Nuttatch X Older-crow/Tinglet X Cassin Vireo X Cassain Finch X Red Crossbill XF Oregon junco X X X X Cooper Hawks F X Blue Grosuse X Nashville Wabler X Piloted Woodpecker X Robin X Cedar Waywing F Salapophytes Humming bird X F Orange-crow-Weble X X X Barn Swallows F F Townsen & Solitaire X Nermit Thruok X X White-headed Woodpoole X Brown Towhee X Green-tailed Towhee X Rubelton Wabler. X F Bush-tit X Brown Creeper X
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Sullivan 1949 For description of habitats see journal pages- 178 p181 p180 p183 p186 Seanothus Brickland. Fir-Bedar Pine Oar Forest Condolation Brush Batten Ridge House Wren X X Tolmie Warbler . X Spotted Towhee X X Fox Sparrow X Vaux Swift F F Savannah Sparrow X White-breathed Thrush X Purple Hummingbird X Pipit + F X Spotted Owl . X Olive-sided Flycatcher X Western Bluebird X Pine Siskin F Winter Wren X Black-throated Gray Warbler F Sharp-shinned Hawk X Raven. F? Screech Owl X Flicker X
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Journal Sept 6 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. Trap along the last damp part of the spring area. Collected a Chickaree on the way back along my trap line, just a few dozen feet from where I got the Cutamias. Shinned all morning and most of the afternoon. Collected one of a gang of Steller Jays by the water hole, and tried to collect a Cassin Finch from a tall fir near the water hole. When I checked my traps about 5:30 p.m. I heard a Bear rummaging around in the draw about 300 feet east of camp. Sept 7 same locality - Only this morning I collected a Robin just west of camp (I heard) Boowill calling last night from the general area that I collected one) and heard a flock of Cedar Warblings over head. A Tiledated Wood- pecker was near camp calling and shortly afterwards it began to rain. After putting the tent up we went down the road to the Red Mtn fire tower, looked around there, and then dropped down to a spring just west of there. Flushed a Blue Goose near the spring going down, and a spotted down from the same area coming up. Noted very heavy deer use in that area, with both Harry and Bruno Oak being considerably turned back in addition to
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Gullion 1949 Journal 180 Sept 7 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork Trinity Co., Calif. The general heavy use of the various Crestlines. Back by the lookout tower I saw a Mantled Ground Squirrel but failed to collect it. At the same place I failed to collect a Nashville Warbler from a dense Tangle of Brewer Oak. Near the Red Mtn Guard Station I saw and fired at but missed another Mantled Ground Squirrel. Murray let me out just N of Red Mtn (the Guard Station and Lookout are both on the ridge E of Red Mtn) and, at 11 a. m. I saw 2 Barn Swallows pass by, both flying low, through the forest crown, calling back and forth. They were flying directly south. Heard a deer in the forest below me and Red-breasted Nuthatches and a Gray Squirrel are perching from the Pine-Cedar-Fir forest just west of me. There is a typical Fir-Cedar-Pine Open Forest on Red Mtn as ground camp. It is composed of White Fir (Abies concolor) (with a very little Douglas Fir mixed in), Incense Cedar, and Jeffrey Pines. The understory where it loses exist is almost entirely Manry Oak while the ground cover consists of Brewer Oak (Quercus breweri), Manzanita (Arctostaphylos Brown-Berry 10-3-58)
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Hullion 1949 Journal 181 Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. and occasionally [illegible] Ceanothus cuneatus and cordulatus and quite a lot of Snowberry (Symphocarpus sp?) The Ceanothus Brushland - is on open exposed slopes scattered among the above forest and on the crests of the ridges. It sometimes nearly serves as ground cover under the conifer forest. The tallest element in this brush land is Gray Oak (Quercus griseana) with scrub Brewer Oak (Quercus breweri) around its base and scattered elsewhere. Ceanothus cuneatus, integerrimus cordulatus and prostratus are major elements in this habitat with [illegible] considerable Stands of Manzanita (Arctostaphylos [illegible]) also present. Less common are clumps of Bitter Cherry (Prunus emarginata), Ocean Spray (Holodiscus discolor) (very dwarfed), a Service- berry (Amelanchier alnifolia) a small Rose (Rosa species?) and a Ribes [illegible] gooseberry. Working on north along the ridge I collected a Townsend Solitaire from a brushy area of Bitter Cherry and 2 deer out of the same brush. Then called out a couple of Juncoes an Orange-crowned Warbler and a Vermithrush in the same area - collected the
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Journal Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. - through (Incidentally I collected an Orange-crowned Warbler just south of the Red Mtn Lookout earlier today). Working down into the saddle just north of Red Mtn., I called up two lots of 15-20 Mountain Chickadees and a small group of Red-breasted Nuthatches. Heard a White-headed Woodpecker and collected it and then found a spring and water tanks nearby. Found the carcass of a drowned [Screech?] Owl in the water tanks, then went up hill to the spring, cleared out the intake pipe and now this spring is running much more water into the tank than the one at camp does. Returning to the tanks I found a Hybza regilla clinging to the inside of the tanks - collected it. Went on up onto the open ridge, saw a Brown Towhee fly into some brush and collected a Green-tailed Towhee nearby. Saw several more Beechy Ground Squirrels but was not able to take any. Worked around to W side of the next hill, collected a Sceloporus occidentales under some young pines, and a little further on took an Audubon Warbler in some manzanita. Returned to camp. Sept 8 same locality - Left camp in afternoon, dropped over ridge S of camp to basin on NW side of the next hill. Saw 2 Beechy Ground Squirrels
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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
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Gullion 1949 Journal 184 Sept 8 Red Mtn. 5300ft., 1/4 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. Fox Sparrows and saw a J Rufous Hummingbird. Saw 2 Vaux Swifts and collected a Savannah Sparrow on this ridge. Leaving these I returned to Camp and skinned my specimens. During the evening 2 Spotted Owls came through camp but were not collected. Sept 9 Same locality - Left camp early this morning. Collected a Fox Sparrow on the ridge S of camp, then got another a few minutes later. Worked around the E side of the hill S of Camps, thru a fine forest of mature White Pines, Jeffrey and Sugar Pines and Incense Cedars. Saw several Chickarees, Townsend Chipmunks and collected 1 Brown Creeper. Saw a Cooper Hawk flash thru the forest. Coming out onto the open top of this hill I saw several more Fox Sparrows and collected 1 Sceloporus occidentalis. Heard a White- breasted Nuthatch in the pine forest on the S slope of this hill. Working on down this slope I found several more Fox Sparrow and a Spotted Towhee. When I shot at the Towhee I flushed 1 forked horn and 2 3 point Black-tails out of the Mangenta just beyond. Working on around this ridge, Serpentine barren S of this hill I saw 2 more Fox Sparrows, several Yellow-pine and Sonoma Chipmunks, and collected one
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Dullon 1949 Journal 185 Sept 9 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. of the latter. In an open Cleanthus area I heard a House Wren and collected it, saw two more. Also took a Sceloporus gracivus in this same area. Returning towards camp I took another Sceloporus gracivus on the ridge top and then collected a Bachy Dendron Squirrel from a rock pile on the ridge west of the hill S of camp. Also saw 4 Pigeons flying north over the ridge, then returned to camp. - That forest area on the E side of the hill S of camp sure looks like good Blue Grosbeak country. Warbler migration seems to be continuing unabated. Saw lots of Pocket Gopher snow on burrow cores. This evening a Flying Squirrel sailed into the lighted kitchner area while dishes were being washed. It landed within 3 feet of Cogswells road, and very quickly scurried up into the White Fir. Sept 10 Same locality. Early this morning I saw Fox Sparrows on the Wase ridge S of camp, during breakfast period I collected a Cassin Finch from near the spring and saw an Olive- sided Flycatcher foraging in the tree tops. Leaving camp for Duskabella Mtn. I collected a Herpestes in a Brewer Oak patch just
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Dullion 1949 journal 196 Sept 10 Red Mtn, 5300ft., 14 mi S Hayfork Trinity Co. Calif. N of camp. Went on over the forested ridge to a little stream flowing with quite a bit of water. Saw a Gray Squirrel, several Chickadees and an Olive-sided Flycatcher here in addition to the usual Red-breasted Nuthatches and Mountain Chickadees. Also heard a Winter Wren singing in the forest just S of this spring. Working on from the spring onto the ridge just north I called a White-headed Woodpecker in to about ten feet and two Red-breasted Nuthatches tried to land on my hunting cap. Working on up the ridge I saw a Vaux Swift pass overhead, and working onto a barren S slope I saw a flock of about 6 Western Bluebirds foraging on the slope. Looked this Barren Ridge Habitat over. It is shallow soil area on top of a series of ridges radiating out from South Dubachelle Mountain. Vegetation is scarce and far between. What is there consists of a few stunted Jeffrey Pines and widely spaced scrubby bushes of Brown-berry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos cuneatus, Purshia tridentata, Holochilus discolor, Arctothos prostratus, Brown-berry Manzanita (Purmes emarginata.
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Phillips 1949 Journal 187 Sept 13 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 1/2 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. In the draws between these ridges are areas of typical Fir- Cedar-Pine Open Forest. Working up the ridge I saw Two Pine Siskins fly overhead and heard a Green-Tailed Towhee in a nearby draw. Collected a Mantled Ground Squirrel from a rock outcropping and heard a Flicker calling down slope (I heard a Pileated Woodpecker near the spring mentioned above on the way up). Quite a string of warblers are passing over this morning. They are flying fairly high apparently because I have heard many but seen only two or three and they were too far off to identify. Working on up to the summit of South Dubahella I saw a Black-throated Gray Warbler and an Audubon's Warbler fly over the SW ridge of S Dubahella. About 1 p.m. I saw 3 Pipits on the barren slope just west of the summit and a Hummingbird (Colibri?) flashed along the forest edge on the N side of the ridge. Juncos were seen on the SW ridge not far below the crest. Lots of Sceloporus graciosus on the upper barren areas, some quite large and lots of small ones. Also very many grasshoppers. Saw two Cooper's Hawks chasing one another just below the lookout
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1949 Journal 188 Sept 10 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayford, Trinity Co., Calif. on North Dubshella. (Incidentally, I heard a Raven calling from the ridge S of camp last evening). Coming back down the SW ridge & collected a Geothostus in the first Brewer-Oak patch and a second one in the next oak patch. Coming then on area of open pine forest I heard a gang of Mountain Chickadees and Red-breasted Nuthatches scolding, checked it and found a Sharp-shinned Hawk which promptly departed. Then heard a Flicker still further downhill and saw a White-headed Woodpecker overhead. I went after the Flicker and it flew across [illegible] valley. Looping around the end of this small valley I flushed it again and shortly afterwards collected it. Came directly back to camp from that point. While preparing the lizards I found a small tan backed Geothostus deaf on the ground by the kerp table. Sept 11 Trinity Co., Calif. - Left camp at Red Mtn., about 8:30 a.m., went down the road towards White Rock Ranger Station then turned north off the road to North Forks Beegum Creek. As we approached this road junction the Abies concolor which was so apparent in the forest higher up is dropping out and being
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Gullion 1949 Journal 189 Sept 5-11 Red Mtn, 5300 ft, 1/2 mi S Hayfork Trinity Co Calif. Map of Camp and vicinity - for general view see USGS Hogglin Calif Quadrangle edition of 1935 N. Dubachilla Hunter Camp O Open + Bush X Forest S Dubachilla. SW Ridge Spring Red Mtn Camp Spring Poorwill taken here Bone Hump Cordubatus Area Rocky Ridge Margamita Area Barker Ranch Spotted Towhee Country 40°21' N lat. 123°10' W long. Smoky Creek Spring #2 Red Mtn 1 mi. south Hill 5502 ft.
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Hulbert 1949 Journal 190 Sept 11 Trinity Co, Calif. replaced by Douglas Fir. About 2 miles N we turned onto the Middle Fork Bearum Creek road and began really dropping down. Sugar Pine soon dropped out. Pegan Meadows was an inviting looking locality to pass up. Quite a well developed green grassy meadow of about 1 acre extent. Dropping on below that the forest began thinning out on the S facing slope and Digger Pines and a Chamise Chapparal began to be visible in the valley below. Rounding the end of a ridge onto a W slope we were into a Douglas Fir forest without many Pines but with Broad-leaved Maple, Madrone, Black Oak and Alder. Springs became common and several likely looking Drycstrten spring were passed sep, with small water flows and deeply moss coved rocks. Still further down we went along Baker Flat Creek, a stream with- out water but otherwise looking very much like the foothill streams flowing into the Willamette Valley of western Oregon. It was bordered by large Broad leaved Maple and Alders with Douglas Fir up slope with an under- story of Cornus nuttalli, Corylus rostrata Vacciniscus discolor and with False Solomon
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Gullon 1949 found. 191 8th 11 Trinity and Tehama Co., Calif. Seal (Smilacina sp?) and Cornus canadensis on the ground. Coming out of that stream area we left the moist forest behind and started into the foothill-valley flora consisting of various chaparral species, mostly Chamise, with Digger Pines scattered around. In the Beegum area & saw two Say Phoebes, at least 2 Lewis Woodpeckers and 4 American Capercaillie. On east from Beegum the chaparral dropped out and the rolling hills are covered with grass with a few Digger Pines and Blue Oaks for trees. On most moist of north side slopes a Manzanita, Coffee-berry, Rhus trilobata and a rose are found. Along Cotton Dry Creek are Black Cotton- woods, and various species of Salix. A flat tire halted progress along Dry Creek. In this hot open stream valley are lots of Lewis and Acorn Woodpeckers, Turkey Vultures, a Red-Tailed Hawk, Say Phoebe, White- -breasted Nuttall's, Scrub Jay, American Goldfinches, Lazuli Bunting, Loggerhead Shrike, Plain Titmouse, Nuttall Woodpecker, Mourning Dove, Flicker, / Sceloporus. gracilis. Along this stream course of Buckeye and Blue Elderberry are also growing.
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Hullion 1949 Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. August 8 - September 11 Summary of Bird Species Recorded. x-recorded c-collected 192a Big Lagoon French Camp Willow Creek. Red Mtn. 192 Date Aug-8 to Aug18 Aug19 to Aug26 Aug 26 to Sept 4 Sept 5 to Sept 11 Journal Pages 112 to 139 140 to 156 157 to 176 176 to 189 Loon, species? x Grebe, Eared x " Pied-billed c Cormorant, Double-crested x Neron, Great Blue x x " , Green c " Black-crowned Night x Bittern, American x Mallard. x Pintail x Teal, Green-winged x x " , Cinnamon c Duck, Ruddy x Merganser, American x Vulture, Turkey x x x x Hawk, Sharp-shinned x x SC x " , Cooper x x " , Red-tailed x Eagle, Golden x Osprey x Hawk, Sparrow x x x Breeze, Blue c x " , Ruffed c Quail, Valley x x " , Mountain c x Rail, Virginia c " , Sora x
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Gullion 1949 1926 Big Lagoon French Camp Willow Creeks. Red Mtn. 1927 Aug 8 to Aug 18 Aug 19 to Aug 26 Aug 26 to Sept 4 Sept 5 to Sept 11 112 to 139 140 to 156 157 to 176 176 to 189 Coat X Plover, Semipalmated X Killdeer X Curlew, Hudsonian X Sandpipers, Spotted X Yellow-legs, Greater X " " , Lesser XC Sandpipers, Baird's XC " " , Least c Dowitcher, Short-billed c Sandpiper, Western c Phalarope, Red c Gull, Ring-billed X Murrelet, Marbled X Dove, Mourning X X c Pigeon, Band-tailed X X X Owl, Screech. X c " , Horned. X c X " , Pygmy. X X " , Spotted X Poorwill c Nighthawk X x? Swift, Vaux's X X X Hummingbird, Selasphorus X X X " " , Rufous X X Kingfisher, Belted X X Flycatcher, Red-shafted X X X c
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Sullivan 1949 1928 Big Lagoon French Camp Willow Creek. Red Mtn. 192 Aug 8 to Aug18 Aug19 to Aug26 Aug 26 to Sept 4 Sept 5 to Sept 11 112 to 139 140 to 156 157 to 176 176 to 189 Dipper Wren, House X c " , Winter X X X " , Marsh X Robin X c X c Thrush, Varied X " , Hermit X c c c " , Casset-backed X X c Blue bird, Western X X Solitaire, Townsend c c Kinglet, Golden-crowned X X X X Pipit, American X Waxwing, Cedar X c X Vireo, Hutton X c X " , Cassin X X X X " , Warbling c Warblers, Orange-crowned c X c " , Nashville X " , Yellow X X " , Audubon's X c " , Black-throated Gray. X X " , Hermit c " , Tolmie X c yellow-throat c c Chat, yellow-breasted Warbler, Pileolated X X X Meadowlark, Western X
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Gullion 1949 Big Lagoon French Camp Willow Creek. Red Mtn. 192 Aug 8 to Aug 18 Aug 19 to Aug 26 Aug 26 to Sept 4 Sept 5 to Sept 11 112 to 139 140 to 156 157 to 176 176 to 189 Red-wing X Blackbird, Brewer X Tanager, Western X X X Grosbeak, Black-headed C C Bunting, Lazuli X X X Finch, Calif. Purple X X " , Cassin C " , House X X Siskin, Pine X X C X Goldfinch, American X X X " , Hen-backed X X Crossbill, Red X C X X Towhee, Green-tailed C " , Brown X " , Spotted X X X Sparrow, Savannah C C C " , Park. C Junco, Oregon. X X X X Sparrow, Chipping X X " , White-crowned X X X " , Fox C " , Song C X
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Gullion 1949 journal 193 Sept 11 Tehama to Contra Costa Co., Calif. Moving on down the valley I saw a Horned Lark and several Western Kingbirds. Along the valley from Red Bluff to Richmond [illegible] I saw many Shrikes and great numbers of Redwings. Also saw a Tail- Less Mourning Dove. Lots of Ring-necked Phasants were seen along the Valley high- way. Looks like a good season in that area. Phalaropes (Northern?) were seen abundantly on nearly every accumulation of water mud- puddle, pond and irrigation ditch.
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3. Gullion, G. W. Aug. 8 - Sept. 10, 1949 Humboldt and Trinity cos., Calif. Species accounts Amphibians Reptiles Birds Mammals
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Gullion 1949 Dicamptodon ensatus -1- Aug 14 Big Lagoon, 250 feet, Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 adult taken in the heavy redwood belt E of the south end of Big Lagoon. It was under a rather flat stone, on a gravelly, muddy substrate about 3 feet from swiftly moving water - stones are all moss covered - and in quite dark situations. Nearby water was 13°C (55°F). Aug 24 French Camp, 300 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - (copied from Rychotriton olympicus, page 2). A much larger individual was taken about 50 feet further downstream (from where the Rychotriton were taken) - about 200 to 300 yards below the source of this stream) under a moss covered flat rock in the waters of a very small pool (3 ft long, 1 foot wide, 6 inches deep). Water temperature was 57°F. Aug 26 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 large and 1 small individual taken from the waters of Raccoon Creek just below the bridge at the campsite. They were in a fairly still pool in the main part of the stream, on a rocky bottom, some hiding under stones. This pool is subject to direct sunlight only during middle part of morning - water about 1 ½ feet deep, temperature 55°F. Sept 1 Brannon Creek 2 mi N Willow Creek, 490 ft., Humboldt Co.
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2 larvae collected in a couple of still pools among the rushing waters of Brannon Creek. No search was made for more specimens. 7:35.
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Gullion 1949 Dicamptodon ensatus -2- Sept 1 Brannan Creek, 2 mi. W Willow Creek, 1470 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 2 small larvae collected in a couple of still ponds among the rushing waters of Brannan Creek just above the bridge. No attempt was made to find others. Sept 2 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 large larva found in Raccoon Creek right at the campsite, swallowing a garter snake (Thamnophis elegans). The salamander was first observed at 12:20 p.m. It was on the bottom of the fairly large pool - 15 feet long by 6 feet wide by 1½ feet deep - in full sunlight and in rapidly moving water. It moved around some, taking in more snake, about 2 or 3 ventral scales at a time, every 10 to 12 minutes. The snake was upside down. The salamander was freely moving around the bottom of the pool, head first, carrying the fairly stiff body of the snake with it. After photographing it in the water I collected it in a dish-pan, still with the reptile in its mouth. Its gills are a very deep, almost purplish red, and are continually being flexed. I watched it make one swallow. It opened its mouth very wide, then
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Dullin 1949 Dicamptodon ensatus -3- Sept 2 3mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. it closed down the posterior part of the palate first (perhaps catching against the posterior edges of the ventral scales) and then closed its mouth. With the closing of the mouth about 10 to 15 mm. of the snake disappeared inside. About 1:15 p.m. I moved the dish-pan to get some more photos and the Dicampt regurgitated the snake. Picking the snake up I found that it had tooth scratches for 140 mm along its ventral surface, and that it was covered with a slimy coating for nearly the same distance. The snake is 540 mm long but the salamander is only 260 mm. During a period from time of disgorging until 2:35 p.m. the snake lay in the water and the salamander moves less pooled around, occasionally coming to the surface to gulp air, but generally showing no particular activity or interest in the snake. At 2:35 p.m. just after taking a gulp of air, it grabbed the snake again, by the head and upside down. It swallowed the first 60 to 80 mm in about 30 seconds and now at 2:48 p.m. has about 135 mm of the original 140 mm back into its mouth. With the snake in its mouth
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Gulliver 1949 Dicamptodon ensatus -4- Sept 2 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Cal.- it thrashes around quite a bit, and its gills are not flexed nearly as frequently. Swallowing seems to be accomplished in 3 different ways, first, the deliberate opening of the mouth using the palate separately; secondly, by a jumping gulp in which the mouth is readily opened; and thirdly, there seems to be some swallowing accomplished without externally visible activity, since the scales can be seen slowly slipping [illegible] between the jaws without any visible movement of the jaws or body. This latter method was particularly evident during the first 120 mm of swallowing. Now at 3:01 p.m. considerably more than the original 140 mm of reptile has passed through this salamanders jaws. At 3:10 p.m. for no apparent reason he again disgorged the whole reptile. This time [illegible] it had swallowed about 190 mm of the snake before disgorging it. The water temperature where the salamander was first seen is 59 F. After disgorging this second time it very actively fanned its gills back and forth, continuously. At 3:20 p.m. the salamander was killed, and both animals preserved, being my catalogue numbers 146 and 147. When the salamander was
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Gullioni 1949 Dicamptodon ensatus -5- Sept 2 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. put into the chloroform jar its gills ruptured, draining a considerable amount of blood out.
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Bulloni 1749 Rhyacotision olympicus Rhyacotiston -1- Aug 14 Big lagoon 250 feet, Humboldt Co., Calif. - d took light larvae out of the section of a stream below the Hammond lumber Company road going directly up from the Big Lagoon shops. At this stream is in the redwood belt. It drops about 90 feet for every 100 feet run- temperature was 13°C (55°F). R-Water clear, and in the area worked there was a thin coat of mud on the bottom. As I approached each pool the larvae present all scooped around seeking cover. Most of them were satisfied to have just their heads covered with mud- the rest of the body being left exposed. Several large larvae were seen that I was not able to catch- they all headed for deep water when I approached. -sees also-following page.
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Sullivi 1949 Rhyacotriton olympicus -2- Aug 24 French Camp, 3/00 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 2 small individuals taken from among loose pebbles - by digging in them - along the stream below camp (see found p 198), about 100 yards down hill from the streams source. The situation is one of moss covered rocks, a small but probably permanent stream, bordered by Five-finger Fern Adiantum pedatum and overhung by nine-bark Pseudocarpus capitatus and alders, also western azalea close along the borders - in a very open Douglas Fir forest with Tan Oak- Chinquapin - Madrone understory. Dicamptodon A much larger individual was taken about 50 feet further downstream under a moss covered flat rock in the waters of a very small pool (3ft long by 1 foot wide by 6 inches deep). Water temperature of this stream is 51 F. Aug 27 Maple Camp Spring, 3/2 mi NE, Willow Creek, 2200 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. I found 7 larvae / of which 1 nearly metamorphosed, in the small gravel under the larger moss covered rocks. This stream probably does not flow more than 1 gallon a minute, has a temperature of 54° F, and vanished completely about 8 feet below where these larvae were taken. It must not extend more than 100 yds further up hill.
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Jullion 1949 Ambystoma gracile - 1- Aug 12 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif.- Four larvae taken today from a still pond in deep Sitka Spruce forest. The water temperature is 52°F at the bottom, just above the thick accumulation of leaves - mostly of Broad-leaved Maple Acer macrophyllum. All four were taken from a moss covered log crossing the pond, and were in water less than 2 feet deep. The water probably never gets direct sunlight, there being a thick cover of Broad-leaved Maple, Salmon- berry Rubus, Alder Alnus rubra, Sword overhead. The borders of the pond are grown mainly with Sword Fern Polystichum munitum, Lady Fern Athyrium filix - forming a Carex and Spunk Cabbage Lysichiton kamtschacense. In most places the border vegetation above described nearly completely covers the water especially Shunks Cabbage leaves floating on the surface. Leaf litter on the bottom is about 5 inches deep, The pond is about 8 7 feet wide at its widest and not over 2½ feet deep anywhere. A number of water striders are active on the waters surface.
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Hullor 1949 Ambystoma gracile -2- Aug 13 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - Returned to the same pond today, saw three of the medium sized larvae in the same area I took the 4 out of yesterday. Aug 15- same locality . Returned to same pond discussed above with Keith Murray, Using flashlights we caught- he did most of it- several more larvae - including two 2 large ones taken from the 2 1/2 foot depth. In addition to the several taken at least 3 medium sized ones were seen and 1 large one were seen but not taken- also one more very small one. I photographed the collection site,
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Gullion 1949 Ensata Eschscholtzii -1- Aug 25 1 mi. S: of Coyote Peak, 3200 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif.- 8 found under the bark, or smooth, in holes in the wood of very rotten Douglas Fir logs in typical Fir-Maple Forest (see journal p/154). These were all found in more damp locations than were the Anceles. Four of them were taken from one rotten log, either immediately under the bark of or more often in small holes in the rotten wood. Four more were taken in a very rotten log that I was able to tear apart with my bare hands. Termites had riddled the log and all four were in the holes made by the termites. Two were taken from the same hole and must have been in bodily contact when the wood was lifted off. - when I put this lot into a chloroform jar to prepare them, 5 of them including all of the three largest, shed their tails at the constriction. The ones that did not were all small ones. Murray and Cogswell used alcohol and chloroform in water (respectively) to knock theirs out without losing tails. Apparently straight chloroform is too severe.
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Gullion 1949 Batrachoseps attenuatus Aug 14 Big Lagoon 250 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 small very dark individual seen but not taken when I pulled a big chunk of soft mud off a bank under a redwood root system. I had the animal in my hand but in trying to get a good look at it, it escaped, and very quickly disappeared into a worm burrow. Despite a great deal of digging I was not able to find any trace of it. It was about 2 inches long, and seemed to be very dark, with no back pattern. It was an extremely active animal, and really 'dashed' for shelter.
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Gulloni 1949 Aneides fennens -1- Aug 25 1 mi. S of Coyote Peak, 3200 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 3 found under the bark, in fairly dry locations, on fallen Douglas Fir logs in typical Fir-Maple forest. Two, 1 large and 1 small one (that Murray dropped and lost) found under the bark of a long fallen and fairly rotten Douglas Fir. The other was under the bark of a tree that was still solid, and perhaps not on the ground for more than 2 years. This animal was between the bark and the wood on the underside of the log about 25 feet in the middle of a 50 foot stretch in which the log does not touch the ground. Both of the others were taken under thick slabs of bark on top of the log.
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Fuller 1949 Bufo boreas -1- Aug 15 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif - 1 fairly small individual taken out of the surface layer of Potamogelton on the "Long Pond" (See general p. 124) at the S end of the lagoon. It was about 2 feet out from the shore. Quite strikingly colored - the tubercules on the feet are all bright orange and the tubercule, on the back are a bright red - against a dark green background. - By time I got back to camp the red tubercles on the back had faded to a dull red, not at all conspicuous. Aug 20 4 mi NNE, +/- 3000 ft. of French Camp, Humboldt Co., Calif. Collected 2 quite large ones in a grassy area clearing among a dense stand of Chinquapin at the Fullwood Ranch. Aug 28 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 very tan individual collected in camp this evening after it was dark. Sept 3 Branman Mtns 3700 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 collected while foraging around in Jeffrey Pine needle litter about midnight on a moonlight night.
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Humboldt 1949 Hyba regilla -1- Aug 12 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 small bright green individual picked up in a thick Carex clump along the north edge of the meadow N of Camp. Aug 31 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 2 or 3 individuals have been heard almost nightly at this camp. One of them has been consistently heard on the damp bank just S of the campsite, and 1 or 2 have been heard along Roccon Creek. Sept 1 1 mi W Brannan Mtn, 3300ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 of a large number seen was collected from the upper parts of a Carex leaf in the mud filled bed of the small pond at the head of the east fork of Three Creek. All the specimens seen were very tan, not the bright green so often encountered. Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300ft., 1/2 mi S Hayfork Trinity R., Calif. 1 found in the water tank at Smoky Creek Spring #2 at the head of the East Fork of Smoky Creek. This animal was trying to escape the rising waters in the tank. There was very little water around except around the spring 50 yards uphill.
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Willis 1949 Rana aurora - 1- Aug 15 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - I oddly colored individual found in a meadow at the E end of the pasture S of the Spruce Forest E of camp (see journal p. 116). The area was full of Mimulus and Ranunculus. I have seen these frogs in nearly every semi-aquatic environment hereabouts. I took a number of them in mammal traps set in the spruce forest under Shunk Cabbage and Carex, even on logs. I have seen them among the Sedges etc., and Potamogelon in the marsh area at the south end of the lagoon. Sept 1 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - I quite large individual with a great deal of the disease "red-leg" found along Raccoon Creek just below camp (about 100ft downstream from where I took 2 Rana boylii a few days ago). This animal was not particularly active; it was away from the water, in a little glade of moss covered stones with lots of alder and maple leaf litter. The immediate overhead cover includes Broad-leaf Maple, Western Syringa and the wood ferns (Aspidium rigidum). So it is now only morning 7 a.m. - I suspect this location is permanently shady.
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Gulloni 1949 Rana boylii -1- Aug 29 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif: 2 taken among the stones in the bed of Raccoon Creek just below Camp. These animals are extremely active, hopping rapidly about and being a little bit difficult to capture. Sept 1 2 mi. W Willow Creek, 470 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 1 taken along the rushing water of Brannan Creek right where the Three Creeks road crosses THE up stream. The water is shallow with a sandy and small stone bottom and borders.
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Gulloni 1949 Sceloporus gracilous -1- Sept 1 1 mi W Brannan Mtn., 3300 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. Taken about 2:15 p.m. under a scrubby Tan Oak on the edge of an acre clearing covered with Ceanothus cuneatus. The animal had been foraging in oak leaf litter in full hot sun and ran for shelter as I approached. This area is on the edge of extensive logging operations in Douglas Fir Forest. Later, I was seen and later collected (by Cogswell) on the top of Brannan Mtn 3900 ft. (see Cogwells account). Sept 9 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayford Trinity Co, Calif.- I collected on a S facing slope covered with widely (10 feet apart) spaced Ceanothus cuneatus bushes. The area between the bushes, and where this lizard was foraging, is composed of 1/2 to 3 inch broken fragments of a shiny Serpentine like rock. This area has been in full sunlight for probably 3 hours. The temperature in the sun where this animal was foraging is 89° F. -A second one collected on a black-lichen covered rock out-crop on the crest of the ridge. At the time of collecting the sun was behind a cloud and the light breeze gave a temperature of 70° F. The sun came out and the temperature went up immediately to 73° F.
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Gullion 1949 Sceloporus graciosus -2- Sept 10 South Devakella Mtn., 5828 ft., 12 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Cal. Lots of these lizards on this barren mountain top. As a matter of fact I would call them very abundant. Walking around among the broken rocks I saw these lizards running in every direction. The sun was out full at noon but with a cool breeze blowing Down lower on the SW ridge these animals became less common but were seen in about every clump of Brewer Oak. Sept 11 10 mi E., 4 mi S. Beegum, Tehama Co., Calif. -1 few nick individual seen in the grass along the road, in full sunlight. It ran into a bunch of Blue Oak leaf litter and was lost after I had closely examined it.
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Sculian 1949 Sceloporus occidentalis -1- Aug 21 French Camp 3,100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 2 individuals collected on a dry rocky, burned over slope S of camp. Ground is covered with grass in spots. , some very dwarf poison oak, but mostly serpentine fragments. Both were collected with a .38 shot. Later in the morning I saw several other larger blue-bellies, all among dead branches in the sun among the shrubby Tan Oak forest or on more exposed slopes. Aug 24 same locality - 1 stubby tailed individual collected (by .38 shot) on a dry grassy- bracken fern slope on the break of the ridge just below the Black Oak Area (see map journal p.148). It was in full moon time sun on a slope facing 8° west of south. The temperature on bare ground at this place is 108°F. the surface layers of soil has a temperature reading of 115°F. Aug 27 3 1/2 mi. N Willow Creek, 2200 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 1 shot in the track and litters about the base of a ceanothus manzanita bush, on the south slope of Waterman Ridge, at about 2200 feet. It is still quite warm on this slope but the sun is off of it (4:15 pm. As the sun is still on where this animal was taken but is partly obscured by a cloud.
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"A racoon (fox)" taken in leaf litter under Black Oak, open ground except for leaves and scattered branches from some Pine Oak and 1 post to Bobo. It ran for shelter under a fallen limb, from which it was shot Sun still on the exposure. (10:25pm.)
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Sullor 1949 Sceloporus occidentalis -2- Aug 27 3 1/2 mi. N Willow Creek, 2200 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. A second lizard, taken in leaf litter under Black Oak. Open ground except for leaves and scattered Bracken Fern, some Poison Oak and 1 foot Tan Oaks. It ran for shelter under a fallen limb, from which it was shot. The sun is still on this exposure (2:25 p.m.) Aug 31 2 1/2 mi. N Willow Creek, 500 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 quite dark and rugged looking individual taken under a Marganita Bush at 12 noon today, while the sun was beating down, with a great deal of heat. Yesterday and the day before I saw these animals crossing sandy areas along the Trinity River where the sand was so hot that I could feel it through my tennis shoes. Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. Collected one on the ridge N of Red Mtn under a forest canopy of straight Jeffrey Pine. The animal was under a Ceanothus clevelandian when collected, and had been foraging in pine needle litter either in the open or under young 5 foot high Jeffrey Pines. Time 1:55 p.m. - the sun has been in and out from behind clouds for the last hour, and it is dripping a little at the moment. The temperature is about 83 F. on the ground.
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Red Mt Sept 9 - I collected 8:45 a.m. on E facing slope - was for on bare rocky ground at edge of Brewer Oak - Ran through to Brown-berry Margeinte - was collected beside many - had been in the sun with the temperature at 75 oF - location has probably been exposed to sun since its rising over the casti horizon. - I shot at individual was carrying a large 9m Crickett to its note. (11a.m.) It had gotten it in Jeffrey P. needle lilies.
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Gullion 1949 Sceloporus occidentalis -3- Sept 9 Red Mtn. 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. I collected at 8:45 a.m. on an east facing slope. It was foraging on bare rocky ground at the edge of a Brewer Oak. It ran then the oak to the shelter of a brown-berry Manginita (Arctostaphylos). It was collected as it ran out from under the shelter of the Manginita. It had been in the sun where the temperature read 75 F. This location has probably been exposed to the sun since its rising over the eastern horizon. - Later I shot at but failed to collect a large individual which was carrying a large Mole Cricket to its hole. It had been foraging in Jeffrey Pine needle litter at 11 a.m.
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Sullivan 1949 Carmes skittonianus -1- Aug 22 French Camp, 3100 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 small one collected from under a stone in the middle of a barren, stone strewn serpentine slope - sun was really boiling down on this side. On a Cincense Cedar Doug. fir forest without ground cover. -Another larger one was seen but not collected- in the wire grass (sp?) opening on the edge of the Tan Oak forest on the slope S of camp. It was among the sticks and fallen leaves of a nearby Madrone - also some wire-grass scattered thru and a sparse number of Broken Fern. The small one was [illegible] discovered when a stone was picked up, it flashed out and under 2 or 3 other stones before being cought at about 1 p.m. The second one- larger one - was out, perhaps foraging, and ran for shelter when I approached - at about 3 p.m. - and was in an area fully exposed to the hot afternoon sun. Aug 27 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 2400 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 fairly large individual seen running for- sheleter while I was walking along the Cedar Meebo Creek Trail up Wetman Ridge - on top of the ridge in fact. It had been in Tan oak leaf litter and escaped into a cover of Evergreen Huckleberry. Time 12:35 p.m., and where the
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Pullaori 1949 Cumeces shiltonianus -2- Aug 27. 3½ mi. N Willow Creek, 2400 ft., Humboldt Co. Calif.- skinks was foraging the temperature is 78°F. it being in the shade.
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Gullion 1949 Sphenomorphus coeruleus -1- Aug 22 French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 yellow backed specimen shot from a log on the edge of a small wire-grass ( ) 3p.m. clearing on the edge of dense Tan Oak forest. The animal came out of a wire grass - broken fern- fallen Madrone leaf mess, ran onto the log where I shot it. While set up in full exposure to afternoon sun. - A couple of minutes later I got another, smaller and darker backed lizard out from under the same bush of Madrone. This time I caught it alive. Another one, quite large, was seen nearly, but could not be collected. Aug 24 - same locality- 1 with a regenerated tail taken in wire grass between 2 clumps of madrone, a second, darker one taken in wire-grass as it started for shelter under Tan Oak. Both in early morning, sun is just beginning to get into this clearing and the morning chill is beginning to dissipate, tho it is still cool. The first was in the sun, the second where sun had not yet reached it. Both were rather sluggish. A third darker one was missed as it scotched to shelter under a Tan Oak clump. - The stubby tailed animal # 80- has a plain orange-brown back, grey head and light gray underside, #81 the long-tailed
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Gulloni 1949 Gerthonotus 2 Aug 24 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Animal has the same gray head, a greenish gray back and a green-yellow under surface Aug 27 3 1/2 mi. N.E. Willow Creek, 2400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 1 individual taken in the leaf litter along- side a fallen Chinquapin. The temperature of the animal's immediate environment is 70 F. The ground is covered with several inches of Chinquapin, Madrone and Tan Oak leaves, those being the trees in this area. Evergreen Huckleberry, Poison Oak and small Tan Oaks from the ground cover. Nearest water is probably Maple Spring, 1/2 mile E. of here. Another, yellow animal with a stubby tail was shot about 1/2 mile further west along Waterman Ridge. This animal's environment is much the same as the last, only Salal and Bracken Fern have replaced the other two plants for ground cover. There is some direct sun in this location, and it is warm (3:30 p.m.). Still a third was shot off a fallen log and rather badly messed up, in the Tan Oak part of the Douglas Fir forest, but within less than 100 yards of the edge of a Black Oak forest. Sept 10 Col Mtn., 5300 ft., 4 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. I collected (7:350 p.m.) under a Brewer Oak.
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Gullion 1949 Gerbonetus -3- Sept 10 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif.- in an open area of scrubby Brewer Oaks. The sun has been on this area for perhaps 1/2 hour and the temperature on top of the leaf litter where this animal was foraging is 61 OF. - South Dubahella Mtn., 5700 ft., 12 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co, California - 1 with a black and white banded tail, with a light gray breast, a gray head with black spots, and a black and yellow mottled back was collected under a Brewer Oak on the crest of the SW ridge of South Dubahella Mtn at the 5700 ft elevation. Ground is covered partially with Gerbonetus prostratus and the Brewer Oak. This animal apparently was just on the edge of the Brewer Oak cover. The area is exposed to sun from sunrise until perhaps 4 p.m. The temperature under the 1/2 foot high oak is now (1:45 p.m.) 77 OF.-A second, yellow- brown lizard was taken much lower on at 5500 ft. the same ridge in needle litter under a Brewer Oak around the base of a Jeffrey Pine. This location should be shaded about 1/2 the day, but would get the full effect of afternoon sun. The temp. where this animal was taken is 75 OF. -next page-
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Dullon 1949 Gerrhonotus -4- Sept 10 Red Mtn. 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. / small tan backed individual found in the wood debris around our campsite, it had apparently been stepped on and killed.
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Gullion 1949 Coluber constrictor -1- Aug 29 2 1/2 mi. N Willow Creek 500 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Certainly saw at least one individual and perhaps saw two in a brushy area at the split of the roads going to the Patterson Ranch and to Horse Linto Creek. Tried unsuccessfully to collect one but if two different ones were seen they were both about the same size. I seen clearly was about 18-20 inches long, with an unmarked olive-tan back. It vanished rather promptly into a hole. Aug 31 Willow Creek 500 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- I found a shed skin with its anterior end in a hole, on the edge of the walnut orchard N of Willow Creek. The area is one of dead dried grass in full sun, a few feet from a blackberry tangle to the south. Water is about 100 feet away.
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Humboldt 1949 Thamnophis elegans -1- Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.- 1 fairly large specimen collected in the pasture E of camp. (see journ. p. 116) It was in a dry area of fairly deep grass, at least 100 yards from the nearest water course. Aug 18 same locality - One very brown individual taken on a dusty trail right on the edge of the campsite. The trail is bordered on either side by a 4-5 strip of about grass about 12 feet wide - then by dense Salmonberry, Alder and Willow thickets. The snake was motionless in the trail, perhaps sunning itself. Aug 27 3 1/2 mi. NE Willow Creek 2400 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif.- [illegible] 1 individual taken along the Maple Creek Trail on Waterman Ridge at about 2400 feet elevation. The forest is primarily one of small tan oaks under large Douglas Firs. The ground is moss covered where the leaf litter doesn't cover it. The ground cover is Evergreen Huckleberry, Posion Oak, and some Bracken Fern. The temperature where the snake was found from is 78 OF. Sept 2 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 1 taken with a Dicamptodon that was in the process of swallowing it. For
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Gullion 1949 Thamnophis elegans -2- Sept 2 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. fuller account see Dicamptodon species account, pages 2 to 5. This snake had tooth marks on its ventral scales and its head area is rather mangled, probably by the mauling and digestive juices of the salamander.
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Gullion 1949 Thamnophis sstalis -/- Aug 12 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co. Calif - 1 individual collected on the sandy South bank of Maple Creek, in a fern-raspberry patch under willows about 100 feet E of the bridge N of the log pond. Soil it was on was dry and semi-shaded. Ground cover not dense. Aug 15 same locality - Saw several quite large individuals in the marsh area at the south end of the lagoon. They are seen most frequently in the short Eleocharis Eleochasis, a short distance away from which Scirpus stands- where they head for escape. Aug 27 see Thamnophis elegans for this date- since that account properly belongs with this species.
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Caludo constrictor Aug 29 - Sawely saw one and perhaps saw two individ in a brushy area at the split of the Patterson Ran Road and the Horse Girts Road N of Willow Creek. Unsuccessfultly to collect
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million 1949 Podilymbus podiceps -1- Aug 12 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 individual remained on the duck pond (see journal p. 124) after all the ducks had left - it gave a low-note and remained very quiet and still. Aug 15 same locality - I seen on the Potamgeton area at the S edge of the Old Mouth of Maple Creek. 1 immature collected on the edge of a Scirpus stand at the NE edge of the marsh area. This bird was in the Tules - pi about 3 feet of water. Aug 17 same locality 2 out of 4 taken while resting in shallow Potamgeton choked water near the SW end of the bridge across the lagoon. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - These goober were seen only in the Big Lagoon area but were seen regularly there. They seemed to generally stick to the shallow water at the south end of the lagoon.
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Dullion 1947 Buteo ridens virescens - 1 Aug 17 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co. Calif. - I seen standing on sand bar along Maple Creek near "Mink Channel" (see journal p. 124). At flew further downstream, again settling on a sandy area along the U loop of Maple creek N of Mink Channel. As it flew from this position & collected IT (7:05 a.m.). Summary - This species was encountered & only in the coastal area around Big Lagoon. I believe that we should have found it at Willow Creek along the Trinity River but we failed to do so. In the Big Lagoon area it was a bird of gravel bars along Maple Creeks, seemingly independent of a brushy stream margin. A single bird was seen daily along the portion of the stream flowing by camp.
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Sullivan 1949 Am bottom Botaurus lentiginosus -1- Aug 17 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co. Calif. - 2 flushed this morning at the E marsh at the S end of the lagoon. One was right at the edge of Carex out on the bridge side of the marsh and the second was in a Scirpus edge - and came awfully close to being collected accidentally when I collected my 2nd Virginia Rail. It was at the SW corner of the "duck pond" (see journal p. 124). Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - This species was encountered only in the Big Lagoon area. In that area it was a bird of thick emergent vegetation, seemingly preferring the tall Carex to the Scirpus, tho also occurring in the latter. I noticed however that birds flushed from the Carex generally flew directly to a thick Scirpus stand where they would settle down.
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Million 1949 Anas cyanoptera -1- Aug 15 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 2 birds seen on the mud-flats just S of the Bridge across the lagoon. They flew as I approached. Later - 2 of this species with 1 Green-winged Teal were resting on the Potamozon choked water at the NE side of the marsh. One of this species was collected. The other two left but circled and settled down fairly close by. They flew by close to me twice and I was able to clearly identify the Green wing. Aug 17 same locality - 2 more "blue-winged" Teal were flying with the mallards this morning as they crossed and recrossed the marsh. I suppose they are of this same species. Summary Northwest Coast Transit, Calif. - This species was seen only at Big Lagoon. 2 or 3 birds were seen on every trip into the marsh at the S end. They were not so readily flushed as the Mallards and Pintails and were less wary about landing nearby when coming into the marsh.
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Hullon 1949 Accipiter striatus -1- Aug 29 Willow Creek, 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 bird collected from a dead branch of a Black Cottonwood Populus trichocarpa about 25 feet above the ground. I did not see it arrive but assume that it had been foraging over the adjoining Brush Bottom and walnut orchard. Goldfinches were tentatively mobbing it, that is making a good deal of noise but hovering 20 to 30 feet from it. Summary Northwest Coast Transecta Calif - This hawk was seen at all four camps but it was encountered most frequently in the interior valley area about Willow Creek. It was very scarce at Red Mtn and seen moderately, frequently but not regularly at both Big Lagoon and French Camp.
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Gullion 1949 Aquila chrysaetos -1- Aug 25 Coyote Peak, 3000 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 bird in fine immature plumage with white under the wings and a black-tipped tail seen soaring out from the top of the hill just N of Coyote Peak. It soared out over the bald, and then turned south, moving directly down the crest-line of the Bald Hills ridge until it was finally lost to sight. Summary Northwest Coast Transit Calif - Only one bird of this species was seen on this trip. Apparently this species is not very common in this area. I would expect them to occur fairly frequently in the "Bald Hills" area which is quite extensive in the French Camp area but perhaps persecution by ranchers has greatly reduced the population.
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Sullivan 1949 Falco sparverius -1- Aug 19 Childs Hill Prairie, 2200 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 10 individuals seen nesting on telephone poles or flying in the vicinity of one small area just out of the Douglas Fir forest near. Aug 25 Coyote Peak, 3000 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - I tried to collect a pale g breasted bird from atop a dead snag on the point N of Coyote Peak. It flew just as I was set to take it so I didn't get it. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif - Sparrow Hawks were scarce at Big Lagoon, only 1 specimen being seen, but were fairly common at on the Bald Hills in the French Camp area. At Willow Creek they were seen about the cleared pasture and crop-field areas. None were recorded at Red Mtn. Clear grasslands seemed to be the necessary habitat to insure their occurrence and this was very limited at both Big Lagoon and the Red Mtn areas. At The great abundance of green hoppers in the Bald Hills area made that area an especially favorable habitat.
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Dullini 1949 Dendragapus obscurus -1- Aug 27 Schoolhouse Peaks, 2800 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - I collected along the road on the S side of this peak. The bird had apparently just come in to take a dust bath, since a truck had been along only a couple of minutes earlier. When it flew from the road it went up in a cloud of dust - into a Double Harry Oak on the fence line. There it was collected. Earlier 2 were flushed from the grass atop Coyote Peak, a mile or so further south. They quickly ducked down into the thick [illegible] Douglas Fir forest occurring on the W side of this point. Summary Northwest Coast Traverse, Calif. - These grouse were found at the French Camp and Red Mtn areas. The French Camp area of extensive Douglas Fir forest looked favorable but the White Fir-Jeffrey Pine forest at Red Mtn produced the most birds. Both areas should have fairly high abundant Blue Grouse populations.
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Gullson 1949 Bomasa umbellus -1- Aug 26 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 bird collected out of a coveny of 8 or 10 birds on the road just out of camp about 5 p.m. All the birds seen were about the same age and may have all been of the same brood. No adults were recognized in the fleeing flock. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - These birds were found only in the stream bottoms coming out from the Trinity Crest area near Willow Creek. At least along Raccoon Creek these birds were quite common and were regularly encountered by persons working down stream from our camp area.
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"Tally Good - Aug 3" "will be good" "Flewshot a lovely of 24-26 birds from a blackberry thicket, berries - mostly 3/4 grown up, only 3 or 4 adults seen."
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Bulleri 1949 Creotys picta Aug 22 French Camp, 3100 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 2 birds collected out of a covery of 6-8, that apparently had been foraging on the barren space between clumps of conifers in the Incense Cedar-Douglas Fir Open Forest. It was about 5:10 pm - fog overhead, so that it was no longer bright daylight. After I knocked the first bird down, the second stayed around, and had just started to run away when I got it. Sept 1 2 mi W Willow Creek, 1400 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. At least 4 seen along the Three Creek road near the Beebe Ranch turnoff at 4:45 p.m. Today. One ran along the road in front of the truck for some distance before flying off. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - This quail was encountered at all camps where we got above the valley floors into timbered areas, particularly with fairly open Douglas Fir - Incense Cedar forest. In such an environment they were seen at French Camp and on Brannan Mtn near Willow Creek. Cogswell saw birds on top of South Dubahlla Mtn S of Hayfork that were on a barren ridge but escaped into White Fir - Incense Cedar open forest. Covies were all small, 4 to 6 birds being the usual number.
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Hullion 1949 Sophotrys californica -/- Aug 31 Willow Creek 400 ft. Humboldt Co. Calif. Flushed a covey of 24 to 26 birds from a blackberry tangle along the highway ½ mile N of town. They were probably enjoying the great abundance of ripe black berries existing there. & Heard several individuals in a nearly tangle on August 29. This covey seemed to be composed mostly of immature birds about 3/4 grown - there were 3 or 4 adults seen in the flying flock. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - Valley Quail were frequently encountered in the Big Lagoon area and were quite abundant on the valley floor at Willow Creek. Two birds also were flushed from the road between Post Creek and Rattlesnake Creek NW of Dubaisella Mtn south of Hayforks. In the low elevation areas these birds were making extensive use of escaped Domestic Blackberries Rubus nocurvens both for cover and for food. Family groups seemed to be generally blended into multi-family covies.
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Louisiana 1947 Y-gail Rallus limicola - 1 Aug 17 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 bird collected on edge of Scirpus along N side of the "Duck Pond" in the marsh at the S end of the lagoon. (see journal p. 124). At the time this was collected at least 2 more were heard nearby. A few minutes later another was taken after it flew from a Carex-Clethra's border to Scirpus cover at the SW corner of the duck pond. 3 or 4 other birds were feeding in the same area. At one time two adults were feeding on open Potamogeton covered mud less than 20 feet from me. They were chasing one another and calling constantly 9:50 a.m. Shortly before the above account was written, the fog came rolling in and these rails became rather inactive, most of them moving back into the depths of the tule, and only being heard, not seen. - A very dark Virginia Rail was seen a short distance N of the duck pond. Several others were seen [illegible] among the Scirpus along the S arm of the old mouth of Maple Creek. Aug 18 - same locality - I heard chattering along the brick bordered stream behind camp, this morning.
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Rallus limicola Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif.- These rails were found only at the Big Lagoon camp. But at this camp they proved to be very common in most aquatic habitats. They occurred very commonly in the Carex and Scirpus growths in the marsh at the end of Big Lagoon. They also were encountered in semi-wooded environments along sluggish stream courses where Carex has developed.
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Gullion 1949 Porgana carolina -1- Aug 15 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. When I fired at two Totanus flavipes collected today, some of the shot hit a Sora, wounding it but not stopping it. Several others called at the same time, from the Scirpus on the N side of the Duck Pond (see journal p. 174). After I picked up the yellow-legs I turned to see two rails slashing from one piece of cover to another- excitedly chattering. Later in the day others were heard at other locations, but always in Scirpus. Aug 17 same locality - 1 bird knocked down but lost along the Old Channel of Maple Creek. Just a pile of feathers and a pool of blood were left- I think another mammal beat me to the carcass (see Mustela vison p. 2). I fired at a second Sora on the Scirpus edge at the SW corner of the "duck pond" on this same marsh, I believe I hit it but it got away in the tules. Summary, Northwest Coast Transect, Calif - these birds were not nearly as common as the Virginia Rails and seemed to be restricted to the Scirpus growths in the Big Lagoon area.
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Mullion 1949 Numerius phaeopus -1- Aug 12 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 bird came in from the north high over the lagoon, first noted when heard passed directly over the island between the mouths of Maple Creek (see found p.124) and continued directly south up the Maple Creek valley - and was heard giving repeating its
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Gullion 1949 Totanus melanoleucus -1- Aug 18 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif - I bird heard as it flew around the valley in the vicinity of the campsite this morning. During the afternoon I heard another over the upper part of the marsh area - calling persistently. -Another bird was fired upon but missed on August 12, off the marsh area at the S end of the lagoon. On one or two other occasions birds were seen or heard flying over this marsh, but never more than 2 birds at a time.
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Cullman 1947 Totanus flavipes -1- Aug 15 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.- 1 bird collected on the Duck Point (see journal p. 124) in the marsh at the S end. It was feeding in a mass of quite dead Potamogeton, in about 8 inches of water so the bird was partly supported by the vegetation.
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Hullson 1948 Limno dromus griseus - 1 - Aug 12 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co. Calif. - Fried at two feeding side by side in muddy Potamogeton covered shore line at S end of lagoon - at what seems to be the meet mouth of (an older mouth) of Maple Creek. The 2nd bird left but with 1 foot limp. Aug 16 same locality - Dr. Miller brought in a bird today that must have been the other one of the two in this lot. It had one foot crippled, and also a pellet in the brain. He found it dead, concealed in a cow hoof print not far S of where it was shot. Aug 17 same locality - A single bird was observed following a small flock of mallards in the fog over the W part of the marsh. It called several times and finally veered off from the ducks and was lost in the fog to the south. Aug 18 same locality - About a half hour after it began getting dark, a single bird was heard following a flock of ducks flying up the Maple Creek Valley.
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July 1949 Sandpipers Calamus maculatus Aug 17 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.- Collected 1 bird from a flock of 3 of this species feeding on Potamogoton covered mud flats with Least Sandpipers. Summary Northwest Coast Transact Calif.- Of all the shore birds, this species was probably represented by the greatest number of individuals in the Big Lagoon area. Even as they still seemed to be restricted to the mud flats covered by a thin layer of water, and to a less extent where found along the waters edge on gravel bars, the Least Sandpiper was more abundant here. These birds were pretty constantly in flocks, seldom was one individual seen active alone.
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Bullion 1949 Erolia vairsii -1- Aug 17 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 of 2 birds collected on the mud flats beside the New Mouth of Maple Creek (see journal p. 124). These two birds were feeding with a flock of about a dozen Western Sandpipers and 1 Semipalmated Plover. These two sandpipers stayed a little apart from the other species, but flew with the other shore-birds. They were more tan or buff than the other birds, and were noticeably longer winged in flight. They were feeding right along the edge of the very shallow retreating water, in exposed Potamogeton.
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Gullion 1949 Calia minutilla -/- Aug 17 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co. Calif. - / collected on the edge of a Carex stand between the "Duck Pond" and the S arm of the Old Mouth of Maple Creek (see journal p. 124). It was feeding in exposed Potamogeton. These birds are of common occurrence on all the open mud areas about the marsh, in or out of water. They very frequently are found in the edge of Carex stands bordered on Potamogeton covered mud-flats. Summary Northwest Coast Transit, Calif. - These birds were regularly encountered in the marsh area at the S end of Big Lagoon where they occurred as individuals or small groups in the Carex and generally vegetated parts of the marsh. They did not seem to be on the mud-flats as commonly but were regularly encountered on the gravel bars along Maple Creek. Cogswell saw / bird at Willow Creek, our only inland record.
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Mullion 1949 Phalaropus fulicarius -1- Aug 15 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 individual collected on the S arm of the Old Mouth of Maple Creek (see Journal p. 124). This bird was not feeding in the fashion generally associated with phalaropes. Instead it would feed in one location for awhile, then get up and fly to another location, where it would settle down and feed awhile before getting up and flying to some other point. Perhaps the density of the Potamogeton growing in the water prevented the more usual mode of feeding.--When shining this bird was found to be extremely thin, probably in the last stages of starvation.
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Brachyramphus marmoratus -1- Aug 15 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Probably two birds heard calling while flying in or above the fog at 5:20 a. m. They flew inland south of camp, going in towards the headwaters of Maple Creek - about 5 minutes later 1 or 2 birds were heard flying overhead, out towards the sea, again above the fog. Murrelets have been heard going to and fro every morning about this same time. Aug 18 same locality - At 5:13 a. m. at least 2 birds were heard calling in the fog - one was giving a hoarse call, a little unlike the calls usually heard. Then about 5:45 - 3 were seen heading out to sea under the heavy fog blanket - as they went out and must have been about over the S end of the lagoon, 2 of them went into a steep power dive and were lost to view behind the trees. The fog was ascertained to beat about 1,000 feet elevation.
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Gullion 1949 Otus asio -1- Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. Found an owl carcass in the water tank at Smoky Creek Spring #2 (see ground p. 189) on the west side of the ridge S of camp. I believe the animal is of this species. Sept 8 same locality - Cleaning up this owl today I found that its stomach contained two large mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae) and one fairly large beetle fragment. The leg of this owl is broken. From the looks of the break it appears that this animal had a broken leg at the time of death. A great number of pink feathers were present on this owl and I suspect that it was a young animal that may have very shortly left the nest before drowning.
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Bubo virginianus -1- Aug 25 French Camp 3/00 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. I collected in the Fir Forest SE of Camp about 7:30 p. m. About 7 a-? I was heard calling from the forest N of camp, as Cogswell went up after her I moved down the road to the East. Apparently, she flew from her original position because soon I heard a male hooting (who-who-whew-whew-) and soon being answered by a nearly ? (who who-a-who who). I worked down through the forest to the vicinity of the Black Oak area (see Map Journal p.148). There I saw an bull fly onto an open limb of a large Douglas Fir. It hooted, giving the ?? call. After a couple of hoots I started answering him. He became quiet and after about 2 minutes flew to a tree still closer to me. The he was out of sight, I kept on hooting, and in a moment he dropped into the top of a low Incense Cedar. I collected him from there - raising #6 shot in a full face shot. During the evening the ? was heard continuously calling in the vicinity of camp. Then at 2:30 a.m. she could still be heard giving an occasional "who" on the ridge Ewest north of camp.
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Zullion 1949 Bubo virginianus -2- Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - These owls were encountered at the first 3 camps but not at Red Mtn. Only at French Camp regularly were they heard. Only one was encountered in the Spruce Forest at Big Lagoon and 1 was heard in the Douglas Fir forest NW of Brannan Mtn.
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Kullian 1949 Glaucidium gnoma -1- Sept 4 Brennan Mtn, 3700 ft, 4 mi NW Willow Creek, Humboldt Co, Calif. This morning while hunting on the S side of the ridge west from the peak, I gave a series of Pygmy Owl calls and got a response from an owl down in the timber to the S. As long as I gave the single note, I got a steady response, but each time I gave the rapidly repeated note the bird became silent. It took 5 to 15 minutes of steady calling with a single, spaced note to get a reply after each time I did that. Finally, after about 2 hours of "conversation" I gave two series of rapidly repeated notes, and was not able to get a sound out of the owl afterwards. Last night I called an owl up into the trees overhead, and had it there for our 15 minutes. I saw it only once, and then it was in flight from one tree to the other, high above me. When this bird first came in it very excited gave a several series of these rapidly repeated calls. I wonder if it is not a territory warning call, or something of the sort. Summary- Northwest Coast Transect, Calif.- None of these owls were encountered on the coast, I was heard at least 1 night at French Camp, but
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Gullion 1947 Naucidium gnomoma -2- Summer, Northwest Coast Ranges, Calif. - at Willow Creek they were quite common. They were heard on several nights right Close to camp, and the day I went up Waterman Ridge I called out 1 owl. On Brannan Mtn. I called out one bird from the Three Creeks drainage at the 2600 elevation, and Cogwell and I each called 1 bird up to the 3700 ft elevation at the Same time one evening, and the next morning we each had long "talks" with different birds in the same area. Cogwell also found these owls, at least 1, at Red Mtn. The no one else encountered them.
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willow 1949 Chordeiles minor -1- Aug 10 Big lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif. - as the sun was setting 3 were feeding and calling high over the burned area E of camp (see journal p 116). Two were heard at the same time over the spruce forest E of camp. Several booms were heard but none observed - one of the three was an immature judging by the poor vocal qualities of it. Aug 18 same locality - just a single call heard this evening before dark - I bird someplace south of the camp area. Aug 30 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700ft., Humboldt Co. Calif. The last two evenings, from about 5:30p. to 7 p.m., I have heard what sounds like a large flock of migrating night hawks passing high overhead. I have not yet been able to see any of them. Aug 31 same locality - Heard the first group this evening about 4:30p.m., they seemed to be mostly E of Camp, circling over the headwater area of Coon Creek. Some also were heard out over the Valley about 4 miles N of Willow Creek. One was heard quite low E of camp, but most of them were so far away that I was just able to perceive them. Still have not been able to see any of them.
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Guillain 1949 Phalaenoptilus mutellii -1- Sept 5 Red Mtn., 14 mi. S Hayfork, 5300ft. Trinity Co., Calif. 1 bird collected about 7:30 p.m. on the crest of the saddle between Dubabella and Red Mtn. The bird was apparently resting in a mass of Ceanothus cuneatus or in a small Jeffrey Pine. As I approached the bird, imitating it, the bird flew out to meet me, circling around me 2 or 3 times and then settling on the ground less than 20 feet from me, when it remained while I shifted to a lower ammunition charge. Sept 7 same locality - Last night I heard a poorwill calling - it sounded as tho it came from the same general area from which I collected the above bird.
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Gullion 1949 Balanosphyra formicosa -1 Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. - Heard and later [illegible] at least two seen, apparently feeding on tan oak fruit, on the edge of a Douglas fir or burn on the ridge Wolf camp. I tried to collect one but Steller jay feeding in the same or nearby trees chattered, warning the woodpeckers. The 2 seen flew up high in nearly dead snags, and one of them was then seen flying off east along the ridge, apparently intending to go some distance. The other bird remained for at least a little while in the burn area, but a Steller jay, now scolding, will probably warn it away from the area in which they were feeding. Aug 21 same locality - There are about 10 birds on the open burned over slopes south of camp. I collected one bird from a group of three dead snags of Douglas Fir, well riddled with their holes for storing acorns. In a smaller snag nearby are two holes, one with a well polished entrance suggesting recent usage (perhaps by these birds). The bird I collected seemed to be one of a family group. At least, two birds
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Gullion 1949 Balanophora formicivora -2- Aug 21 French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. have been closely following others around, fluttering wings and constantly begging. I have not seen actual feeding but several times I have seen one bird alight very close to another, as if to feed it. On the ground beneath these three snags are very many opened hulls of the Tan Oak. Aug 24 Same locality - This morning, sitting on the weak of the slope above the Tan Oak forest, I'd guess that there must be about 2 dozen birds in this local colony. They seem to be in the trees all about. Several are working in the Black Oaks behind me, others in Douglas Fir to the left and in front, while several others are in the snags over and ever down in the Tan Oak forest to the right. - From the large number of Douglas Fir snags in the vicinity with acorns stored in them I would guess that this local colony is temporarily permanent. It must have come in with the development of the tan oak following the last big fire- and should last until such a time that the fir once again replaces the tan oak. It surely is a growing colony. Sept 1 1 mi. W Brannan Mtn, 3300 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. I heard in the cut over area of Douglas
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September 1949 Balanophyia formicivora -3- Sept 1/1 mi WSW Brannan Mtn., 3300 ft., Humboldt Co. Calif. Fir forest N of Johnson Prairie. Most of the Tan Oak and Chinquapin is still standing and I suspect that this woodpecker was gathering fruit from these trees. A large Douglas Fir snag had evidence of working, having quite a series of acorn holes drilled in it. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - These birds were found at French Camp, in the Trinity River Valley at Willow Creek, and on Brannan Mtn NW of Willow Creek. The colonies at French Camp and on Brannan Mtn were isolated ones that had apparently taken advantage of the loss of the Douglas Fir canopy, resulting in more extensive growth and development of Oaks and Chinquapin, providing food and broad- leaved forest more suitable for these birds.
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Bullion 1949 Sphyrapicus varius -1- Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. A parent and a fully grown young feeding in the alders N of Maple Creek just West of the bridge (see Journal p. 176). They seemed to have a series of working which they were feeding along. Aug 18 same locality - A single adult seen feeding along a creek in the bank of a large Alder near camp. Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 bird seen flying through Incense Cedar- Douglas fir forest. It was not seen to be foraging.. Aug 22 same locality - I collected this morning right in camp, while foraging on the branches of a couple of large Incense Cedars. Didn't seem to be working sap, but rather feeding on insects or similar matter. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - These birds seemed to drop out of the picture as we moved inland from the moist coastal area. They were common at Big Lagoon, quite a bit less common at French camp, and not encountered inland at Willow Creek or Red Mtn.
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Doromy Woodp., Aug 27, willow Creek. 1 ♀ of a pair feeding in a group of Black Rails on the edge of the huge Douglas Fir forest on Ridge, was collected.
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Gullion 1949 Dendrocopos pubescens -1- Aug 27 3 1/2 mi. N Willow Creek, 2000 feet, Humboldt Co., Calif.- The ♀ of a pair feeding in a group of Black Oaks on the SW slope of Watersman Ridge was collected. The male when fired upon flew down slope into the Oak forest below rather than into the nearly dense Douglas Fir forest.
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Gullion 1949 Dendroceros albolarvatus -/- Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork Trinity Co., Calif. / collected from the upper branches of a Jeffrey Pine in Typical Fir-Pine-Cedar Forest near the Spring #2 along the west side of the Second Draw N of Red Mtn. It was just working over the tacks, very seldom pecking, and remaining very quiet. A couple of taps on a dead limb gave me the clue to its whereabouts. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - White-headed Woodpeckers were seen only in the Abies concolor forest at the higher elevations on the ridges along the SE part of the area. The extent of range of these birds can hardly be determined from this small contact.
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ullus: 949 Sayornis nigricans -1- Aug 11 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co. Calif.- 1 Bird collected while feeding along an open stretch of Maple Creek about 100 feet upstream from the bridge. It was perching on the ends of snags sticking out of the water and was doing all of its feeding out over the water. The stream is lined with scattered willows and alder, but with one stretch of high [illegible] bank devoid of trees, giving the stream course an open aspect (map see Journal p 116) Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif.- This species was scarce in this area, and encountered at only the two low elevation camps. 1 taken for the single Big Lagoon record, and 2 seen feeding in the brush area along the Trinity River N of Willow Creek constitute the only records.
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Bulloni 1949 Empidonax [illegible] (7) difficilis -1- Aug 31 Willow Creek, 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 of about 10 birds collected. The group were scattered along a Blackberry-Willow growth extending for several hundred feet along a small water-filled ditch on the edge of a hot dry, grassy field. Though much of their foraging was done in the open, they always landed under an overhead cover of some sort, seldom more than three or four feet above the ground. This bird's bill is stained black, enough to suggest that it must be feeding on blackberries to some extent. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - Birds of this genus were seen commonly at all camps except Red Mtn., and birds of this species rated as common to abundant at Big Lagoon and Willow Creek. As indicated above, in the river bottom area at Willow Creek these flycatchers were very common.
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Pullori 1949 Muttellornis borealis -1- Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 2 Birds collected from the isolated Spruce trees and snags just E of camp this afternoon. The two birds taken were apparently birds of the first and second broods by the same adults, for there was a great deal of difference in their plumages, but both were from a group of about five birds that were intermittently being fed by two adult birds. One of these birds was giving the "put-put-put" call when taken. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - Olive-sided Flycatchers were common only in the Big Lagoon area. There they were seen almost daily, and several at a time at least heard if not seen. At French Camp they were less common but single individuals were encountered fairly regularly in the burn below camp. Only 1 was seen at the Willow Creek camp, this being seen in the Pine forest on the Slope of Brannan Mtn (4mi NW of Willow Creek). None were seen at Red Mtn until our last day there, then (Sept 18) a migrational movement must have come through for several birds were seen in the White Fir forest that day, and Dr. Leopold took 1.
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Bullion 1949 Perisoreus canadensis -1- Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. A family group of six or eight was found working through high up in the Sitka Spruce forest E of camp (see journal p. 116). Collected an immature and an adult. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - I saw these birds only at Big Lagoon, in the Spruce Forest and in the Douglas Fir - Redwood Forest at 1600 ft on the ridge just E of Big Lagoon. I expected to find them at Red Mtn., and suspect they occur there, but found none. Perhaps Gray Jays and Poorwills at the same locality are too much to expect.
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Hullon 1949 Cyanocitta stelleri -1- Aug 11 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - Shot one bird on S edge of Spruce Forest E of Camp (see journal p. 116). This edge is composed of a dense tangle of red elderberry Sambucus racemosa, alder Alnus rubra, and a willow Salix ? . The ground cover is mostly Salmonberry with a number of patches of nettle scattered thru. The Jay was in an elderberry when shot. There are many red berries on these Sambucus now. Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 2 birds were seen feeding on the fruits of the Tan Oak Lithocarpus densiflora in the barn on the Ridge N of Camp. Their chattering as I approached warned off two Acorn Woodpeckers I should like to have collected. Aug 21 same locality - Jays of this species were common today in the Tan Oak habitat S of camp visited today. Aug 25 1 mi S Coyote Peaks, 3200 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - Collected 1 bird today on the north end of this ridge. It was in a Broad-leaved Maple with the other components of a Fir-Maple Forest present (see journal p. 154).
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Hullon 1949 Cyanocitta stelleri -2- Sept 1 1/2 mi WSW Brannan Mtn, 3300 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. A dozen or more birds were seen or heard during the heat of the afternoon in a cut- over area N of Johnson Prairie. The Douglas Fir was mostly cut out and only Chinquapin and Tan Oak remained in numbers. These jays were seen and heard working on the acorns of the Tan Oaks. Perhaps due to the heat they were unusually quiet, and seemed to be contented to silently forage and open acorns under the shade of the leaf canopy. Sept 6 Red Mtn., 5300 ft.; 1/4 mi S Hayford's Trinity Co., Calif. I collected out of a group of about 10 that were bouncing around the water-hole at camp. These birds give quite a different series of calls than those heard further north (Willow Creek, French Camp, Big Lagoon). I have not yet heard the Red-tail call that they generally give, but rather an entirely different call. Summary - Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - These jays were quite common at all camps. At Big Lagoon they were least common, and only flew in groups of two or three. This was also quite true at French Camp, tho these jays were encountered more frequently at this camp. At Willow Creek these
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Kullion 1949 Cyanocitta stelleri -3- Summary Northwest Coast Transact, Calif. jays were quite abundant, their groups were frequently encountered and each group consisted of ten to fifteen individuals. On Waterman Ridge, in 4 miles, I must have encountered no less than six groups along the ridge crest. jays at Red Mtn were still in groups, were not so frequently encountered and had a completely different set of calls as above noted.
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Gulliveri 1947 Parus gambeli -1- Sept 6 Red Mtn., 5300.. 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. A night roosting place of two birds of this species was found at 5:45 p.m. with the two birds in it. They were in snug little holes among a tangle of dead Incense Cedar branches, in a bowl-like formation. One bird remained in place until I was within about 4 feet of it. Both nooks were about 5 feet above the ground and from the amount of excrement present it looks as tho the sites have had fairly long occupancy. Sept 8 Same locality - 1 bird seen carrying a worm around in the Psidulatus Brush (see found p.183) habitat S of camp. I was unable to follow the bird for any distance but it sure looked as if it was still feeding either meathings or young just out of the nest. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - These high mtn Parids were encountered in numbers at Brannan Mtn., 7 mi NW of Willow Creek, and were very abundant in the hght (5300ft) Red Mtn areas. Nowheres were these birds found mixed with other Parids. - Incidentally, about 10 p.m. on September 8, I examined this root site again and found 1 bird in it. The bird was pretty snug in its hole, with its head apparently stuck under its
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Shullori 1949 Parus gambeli -2- Summary, Northwest Coast Transect Calif. wing inside wing, its tail was drooping at a 45° angle and the one wing visible was also drooping, pretty well concealing the bird in its hole. The other bird could not be found in its roost site.
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Journal 1949 Sitta carolinensis Aug 21 French Camp 3,000 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. I collected from the side of a chinquapin in a draw-(see Journal p. 148) on the slope S of camp-perhaps [illegible] feet down the slope from camp. The habitat is one of moist hillside, with a few scattered fire scarred Douglas Firs, with Western Azalea, Alder, Tan Oak, Madrone and Ocean Spray (Holodiscus discolor) as the fairly open understory. I though I had heard the bird earlier, but with several Acorn Woodpeckers around making various calls, I was not sure. Aug 24 same locality - Two birds heard this morning, one in the Tan Oak forest to the west of the stream below camp (see Journal p.148) and the other in the open Douglas Fir forest to the east, close to the locality of the above collected bird. Aug 25 same locality - 1 bird was around camp for a little while this morning. Summary Northwest Coast Transect Calif.-These birds were encountered only at French Camp and at Red Mtn., both high ridge localities in Douglas Fir - Incense Cedar, Cedar habitat (at French Camp) or White Fir-Jeffrey Pine forest at Red Mtn. I only heard 1 at Red Mtn. however.
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Red breasted Nuth: French (Can) - Sept 1- I called down in Ponbrosa Pine-Incense Cedar area nor. Ranch W of Willows Creck. Under brush of Chanothy. and Bay. Pair was collected from a Hardy Oak.
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Humboldt 1949 Sitta canadensis -1- Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. I collected from the lower branches of a large Douglas Fir in a Pure Douglas Fir Forest habitat (see Journal p. 143). This bird [illegible] was one of several nuthatches foraging in this tree, and much the least colorful of any seen. Sept 1 1 mi. NW Willow Creek, 1000 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- I dull breasted bird was called down in a Ponderosa Pine-Incense Cedar area along the edge of a Ceanothus chaparral stand that seems to be nearly continuous with the top of Brannan Mtn. to N.N. This bird was collected from a small Haref Oak Quercus garryana on the hot hillside. Summary Northwest Coast Transect Calif.-These nuthatches were seen more regularly than any other species, having been seen in about equal numbers at all four camps. They were common in the Sitta Spruce forest at sea level and the Redwood-Douglas Fir forest at 1600 ft. at Big Lagoon, in the Douglas Fir forest at French Camp and about Willow Creek. In these previously listed areas these birds were generally with Chestnut-backed Chickadees, but in the Pine forest on Brannan Mtn. and
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Gullion 1949 Sitta canadensis -2- Summary-cont'd-[illegible] in the White Fir-Jeffrey Pine forest at Red Mtn. These birds were generally with Mountain Chickadees. These nuthatches did not show the range of habitats occupied by certain other species, but they did occur more universally in the conifer forest where it was found.
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Dullros 1949 Certhia familiaris -1- Sept 9 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork Trinity Co. Calif. I collected while foraging on the side of a small White Fir (Abies concolor) in a forest of tall [illegible] - Fir - Pine - Cedar or Open Forest mature (see gurn D sp. 180). Most of the trees in this forest are mature ones, being a very well developed forest with no under brush, the understory consisting entirely of smalls trees of the same conifer species. This Cooper was alone there being no other birds in the immediate vicinity - but some Golden-crowned Kinglets were foraging high in the forest canopy some distance away.
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Gullio 1949 Chamaea fasciata -/- Aug 22 French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. - The bird collected yesterday, though with a 1 layered skull, paper thin, has a well developed brood patch, with one double row of pin feathers developing along either side of its breast. - It proved to be a male, with the left testes enlarged to about 1/2 mm., the right testes, about 1/2 mm., both jet black. No double layering of skull except for a narrow band down the mid-line. - Same locality - Collected 2 birds today from the edge of a Tan Oak forest. Before I collected the first one, they both were bouncing around in the woods, scolding. After I got the first, the second moved off away, giving a pathetic little note, apparently trying to locate the other bird. This failing, it gave a half hearted type of call, returning again to the vicinity where the other bird was last seen, it scolded me from near the top of a Tan Oak, then flew into the exposed network of branches on a fallen tree - where it was promptly collected. - This calling behavior was also noted being given by the other bird of the pair to which yesterdays specimen belonged. Aug 23 same locality - 1 of the birds collected
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Gullion 1949 Chamaea fasciata Aug 23 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - yesterday and skinned today had what looked like a definite hood patch. Clt proved to be immature by the 1 layered skull and the general uniformity of the ovary, that is no yellow bodies or conspicuous follicles, suggests that it has not bred. There were no pin-feathers about the edge of the bare patch. - The other bird, the first one collected of this pair, is a male with a 2½ mm left testes, a 1mm right testes, a well developed hood patch and a 1 layered skull. Sept 4 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - In this area there seems to be two distinct wren-tit populations. There are the birds on the valley floor, occurring mostly in rather moist habitats along stream courses etc; and there are other birds occupying 2000 to 3000 feet higher that are restricted to the Tan Oak - Manzanita undergrowth in open Douglas Fir-Tan Oak forest. In view of the apparent ecologic and to some extent (for wren-tit) altitudinal isolation, I wonder if 2 races aren't present in this area? The valley bottom form perhaps being of the coastal race, having come inland along the Klamath-Trinity River system.
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Kullion 1949 Chamaea fasciata -3 Sept 4 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. while the ridge birds are representatives of the inland race, coming coastward along the arid brushy ridges Summary Northwest Coast District, Calif. - Wren-tits were encountered at all three of the first camps. They were birds of low elevation dense coastal or river bottom brush at Big Lagoon and Willow Creek, and were birds of thick Tan Oak brush at French Camp and on the 2000 ft. ridges above Willow Creek. Once I thought I heard a bird in a Brewer's Oh- Manzanita covered opening at Red Mtn. but I was never sure and didn't get to see the bird.
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Troglohytes aedon Sept 9 Red Mtn, 5300ft, 17 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. - 10:10am. I heard scolding and a couple of minutes later Collected on a S facing slope. Vegetation consists of widely spaced Ceanothus cuneatus bushes with a few scattered Ceanothus integrifolius bushes. A couple of dwarfed Garry Oaks and several struggling Jeffrey Pines are the only trees. The bare spaces be- tween plants consist wholly of broken up Serpentine rock with no soil present. This bird had been foraging in C. cuneatus just before being collected. Another flew from a nearby shrub when I fired. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - This wren was encountered at Big Lagoon, in a dense tangle of moist habitat brush at the base of a fallen Sitka Spruce and in the Red Mtn area, in Ceanothus cuneatus and C. cordulatus brush under or near a White Fir - Jeffrey Pine forest, on a dry, high mtn ridge. These two localities were the most contrasting of those seen on this trip, yet this wren inhabited brush areas in both. It probably was in the Willow Creek area but overlooked by us.
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Telmodytes palustris -1- Aug 17 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co. Calif.- A family of 2 adults and three sleeky billed downy headed young were seen feeding on the edge of Scirpus and on Potamogeton at the SW corner of the "duck pond" in the marsh at the S end of the lagoon (see journal p 124). Summary Northwest Coast Transect. Calif.- These wrens were recorded only at the Big Lagoon area. There they were common in the marsh area at the S end of the lagoon. They seemed to be birds of the Scirpus primarily, being infrequently encountered in the less dense Carex but being regularly seen in all the isolated Scirpus patches, and every 20 w 30 feet in the continuous Scirpus stands. They were indeed, "Tule Wrens" at Big Lagoon.
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House Wren? R J Mtn Sep 9-10:10 a.m. I heard scolding and a couple minutes later collected on a S facing slope. Vegetation consists of widely spaced Ceanothus cuneatus bushes with a few Scabiosa [illegible] bushes, A couple of dwarfed Gonyt [illegible] Ceanothus interreg and several struggling Jeffrey Pines are the only trees. The Base between plants consist wholly of broken up Serpentine no soil present. This bird had been foraging in C. cuneatus just before being collected. Another flew from a m[?] shrub when I fired.
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Turdus migratorius Julien 1949 Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Found the general vicinity of a nest in the dense thimbleberry - salmonberry thicket on the west side of the first bend in Maple Creek W of the bridge. I could hear the young in the nest and the two parents were chirping vigorously nearby. Aug 11 - same locality - Found an empty robin's nest about 10 feet up in a crotch formerly [a crossed-out line] a mass of small branches coming out of the trunk of a 6 in cedar. Nest mostly of moss with a little bit of grass woven in - lined with a mud cup. Aug 25 Coyote Peak, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 speckle-breasted young collected in a Fir - Maple Forest (see journal p. 154-155) a little way below the spring at [illegible] feet on the west side of the peak. I heard an adult in the same area and 1 or 2 other young birds after this one was collected. The immediate forest was composed of Bay, Chinquapin, Madrone, Big-leaf Maple and Vine Maple with a damp substrate, little muddy pools, and moss covered rocks and logs. The trees were all extremely tall and slender for the
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Dullon 1949 Turdus migratorius -2- Aug 25 Coyote Peak, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. species involved. Aug 26 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - At least 2 birds, one spotted breasted bird with a long tail, and one adult, were feeding on the ground this morning while we were breaking camp. Aug 29 Willow Creek, 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - At least one speckle-breasted young with long tail and 2 or 3 birds in adult plumage seen in the Brush Bottom (see journal p. 165) area. Sept 7 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. - One bird was heard in the White Fir forest in camp while I was still in bed this morning. The persistent "churching" of this bird finally resulted in its being collected. It was an immature bird. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - Robins were most abundant at Big Lagoon, but were also encountered commonly at Willow Creek. At both the high ridge localities where water was scarce (French Camp and Red Mtn) robins were definitely scarce, being encountered only not more than 2 occasions at each camp.
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Pullum 1949 Varied Thrush Isporeus maqinus -1- Aug 12 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co., Calif. - Found a nest this afternoon containing 2 may be more well grown young. It is on one of the lowest branches of a Sitka Spruce, about 15 feet off the ground and about 12 feet out from the trunk on a drooping branch. Nest is made mostly of moss but apparently has a few small (Spruce?) branches woven in. It is not particularly concealed either from below or above. It's hard to judge the size of the nest, but I'd say it's about 8 inches at the widest point, and quite round. The female parent was creely with a mouthful of food. She kept "just"ing with the result that she attracted me away from the nest some, allowed the male to feed the young twice while I was almost under the nest, and generally kept the young quiet. When I first saw this nest I did not recognize it as a bird nest, but rather just a bunch of debris caught in the branches. I decided it was a nest later when I moved some distance away and was able to see the male leaving the nest site after feeding the quiet young. From another location I was able to see the young in the nest.
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Gullion 1949 Hylocichla guttata - 1 Aug 21 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 bird collected this morning in camp. It was foraging in the low branches of a Douglas Fir-Dense Cedar forest and on the bare ground under this habitat. Aug 27 3 1/2 mi N Willow Creek, 2000 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.: 1 of 2 specimens taken in young Douglas Firs on the edge of a Douglas Fir forest without understory or ground cover-bushes. - Didn't see any Hermit Thrushes or Waterman Ridge except in this coniferous forest habitat. Aug 30 Willow Creek, 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 individual seen foraging in a Brush Bottom habitat (so journal p. 165). It was apparently eating blackberries along with the many other species in the grove. I only saw the one bird. This locality is about 1/4 mile from the nearest extensive conifer forests. Sept 4 Brannan Mtn., 3800 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 collected from the lower limbs of a Knobcone Pine on the SW facing slope of the mtn. The area is one of Jeffrey, Sugar and Knobcone Pine forest with Oak, Manzanita and Ocanothus under brush - typical Pino-Cedar Open Forest (see found p. 170). - A little further on a pair of 4mi NW Willow Creek
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Gullion 1949 Hylocichla guttata -2- Sept 4 Brannan Mtn., 3800 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - two or three was seen with one immature that still seemed to still be in a partial juvenile plumage. It was obviously following the other two birds through the Tan Oak & brush. Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. / collected from the lower branches of a white fir in typical Fir-Pine-Cedar Open Forest on the crest of Red Mtn. This bird had responded to a Thrush imitation note. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - / Vermit Thrushes seemed to be well and widely distributed in this transect area. They were found in the [illegible] Forest Redwood Douglas Fir on top of the ridge (1700 ft) E of Big Lagoon, were common in the Douglas Fir forest areas at French Camp and on the hills above Willow Creek and in the White Fir forest in the Red Mtn area. This species quite thoroughly occupied the conifer-forest habitat and areas ignored by the Rustet-backed Thrush.
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Gulloni 1949 Hylocichla mustelata - 1 Aug 30 Willow Creek, coast Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 animal collected in a California Coffee-berry in the typical Brush Bottom (see journal p. 165). This bird had probably been feeding previously on the abundant ripe Black berries that so many more of the birds are working on & Vermit Thrushes are also in this area now as the two species are together here, in the same habitat, and often only a few feet apart. This condition is surely a result of the abundant local food supply. Summary Northwest Coast Transit Calif. - Dusset-backed Thrushes were seen in the lower elevations for the most part. At Big Lagoon and Willow Creek, along the stream courses these birds were frequently regularly observed, at French Camp, they were scarce, only 1 record, and now were noted at Red Mtn. These birds thus were mostly in the broad leaved woodlands at the lower elevations not inhabited by the Vermit Thrush.
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Gullion 1949 Myadestes townsendi -1- 4 mi NW Willows Creek, Sept 4 Brannan Mtn.. 3700 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 bird seen flying around the S slope of Brannan Mtn, and about 1/2 hour late I was able to collect 1 of at least 2 birds foraging on the south slope of the mtn. They were foraging in typical Pino-Eda Open Forest (see Journal p. 170) with several large Douglas Firs mixed in. This collected bird had just dropped to the to ground for forage in the fir-pine needle litter and had landed into a Manganita from which it was collected. Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork Trinity Co., Calif. 1 bird collected from an upper twig of a small 250 sq foot stand of Prunus emarginata . I imagine that this bird had come to this clump with the intention of feeding on the few fruits still remaining of the several bushes. I saw it drop into a high tree, then drop to a lower Tree, and finally down into the bushes. Two deer came bounding out of this brush when I shot this bird.
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Gullion 1949 Bombycilla cedrorum -1- Aug 29 Willow Creek, 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - Several birds seen in the Brush Bottom habitat (see journal p 165) along the W side of the Trinity River about 1 mile N of Willow Creek. At least one of the birds was in streaked juvenile plumage, and lacked any indication of a crest. I did not see it being fed by the adult plumaged birds, but suspect that it might have been. These birds were feeding in blackberries and coffee- berry. Aug 31 same locality - 1 immature, or rather juvenile plumaged bird collected from a flock of about 20 birds. I was able to look most of the flock over closely with Binoculars and this seemed to be the only juvenile plumaged bird in the flock. Yesterday I thought I saw 3 juveniles begging for food among some mistletoe in a Black Oak along the river bank. I could not be sure that they were being fed but they were closely pursuing an adult and making quite a lot of noise. Several other birds same were feeding in the mistle- to nearby. Today, the flock came en- masse, perched in the top of a Bay tree bordering on the blackberry patch, when I shot they all flew over into the berry Thicket. - When this bird was shinned I
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Sullivan 1949 Bombycilla cedrorum -2- Aug 31 Willow Creek 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. found that it had a Coffee-berry fruit in its gullet. Summary - Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - Warwings were fairly common at Big Lagoon (where a short- tailed young probably of local origin was seen) at Willow Creek but were heard only in flight once over the Bid Mtn camp and were not recorded at all *** in the French camp area.
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Pullian 1949. Vireo huttoni - 1 - Aug 11 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - A heavily molled individual came down close in a bunch of alders about 100 feet in from the S edge of the Spruce Forest E of Camp (see your p 116). It remained silently about 10 feet from me while a group of about 20 Chestnut-backed Chickadees excitedly scolded close by. A Pale-stated Warbler ♂ at least one Golden-crowned Kinglet and a Nairy Woodpecker joined the mob. 9am. Aug 22 French Camp, 3100 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. - I collected while foraging in a pure and typical Incense Cedar-Douglas Fir open forest. Our pretty poor plumage, and silently moving about (1:25 p.m.) Aug 27 3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif - Saw 2 birds and heard / as 2 more on the west slope of Waterman Ridge. They seemed to be foraging in the Douglas Firs of a Mixed Forest and in the Firs in the Oak Forest (see ground p. 158-160) Summary Northwest Coast Transsect, Calif. - These vireos were seen at all three of the lower camps, always in association with coniferous forest. They were not recorded from the Red Mtn locality, which rather surprises me. Looked like good country, but maybe they don't go for White Fir - Jeffrey Pine forest.
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Gullion 1949 Vireo solitarius -1- Aug 27 3 1/2 mi. N Willow Creek, 2000ft., Humboldt Co. Calif. One foraging in mixed Golden-cup Oak Black Oak forest on the S slope of Walman Ridge. This bird avoided foraging in the Live oak, apparently preferring the deciduous Black Oak. Aug 29 Willow Creek, 400ft., Humboldt Co. Calif. I heard in the alders along the foot of tho hill W of the Trinity River, north of town. The same bird as others, was heard later near the river, in a Bay-English Walnut open woodland. Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300ft., 14mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co. Calif. I was heard twice yesterday near the spring at camp in typical Fir-Pine-Cedar Open Forest (see Journal p. 180) and today about noon one was calling in the same type of forest just over the E slope on the saddle north of Red Mtn. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - These vireos were recorded from all four camps. At Big Lagoon they were birds of the alders and willows along Maple Creek; at French Camp they were in Tan Oak forest, in Black Oak forest and deciduous stream bottom at Willow Creek. Only at Red Mtn were they encountered in conifer forests.
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Gullion 1949 Vermivora celata -1- Aug 21 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 dull plumaged bird collected while foraging in a Tan Oak edge along a dry creek bed in the burn area on the slope S of camp. Another bird was close by. Sept 7 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. - 1 of 2 birds collected from a clump of low scrub Brewer Oak just south of the Red Mtn lookout tower. They were foraging on or very close to the ground. Late in the day another bird was seen foraging in Fir-Pine-Cedar Green Forest on the north slope of Red Mtn. Sept 8 same locality 1 collected from the top of a Benothus cordulatus on the edge of a typical Cordulatus Brush area (see found p. 183)
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Tolmie Warbler - Sept 8 - Red Mtn. 1 collected from in a bush of Planethus cordulatus in the Cordulatus / Brush area (see journal p. 83) S of camp. This bird was chipping low down in the brush when collected. it or 1,2 or 3 others had been seen at several other logs in this area. 1 especially finely colored bird was seen but not taken.
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Huller 1949 Dendroica auduboni - 1 - Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 min. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. - 1 of 3 collected while foraging in the brown berrred Manzanita growing on the NW face of the knoll just S of camp. This bush is surrounded by Jeffrey Pine forest and there is some Brewer Oak scattered among the Manzanita bushes - ground is covered with Eleanthus prootatus.
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Dullion 1949 Dendroica occidentalis -1- Aug 21 French Camp, 3100 ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 dull colored bird seen flying from one dead snag to another on the slope S of camp. It did not seem to be foraging, but rather just passing thru. - A little later a brightly colored (?) was seen foraging in Tan Oaks in the open area S of camp. I wasn't quick enough to collect it. Aug 23 Same locality - 1 bird taken in the incense Cedar-Douglas Fir forest immediately E of camp. It was one of two birds feeding in the tops of 20 foot Douglas Firs. Chestnut-backed Chickadees and Red- Breasted Nuthatches were foraging in the same trees at that time, but I am not sure the warblers were actually foraging with the parids.
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Sept 8 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif.- I collected from in a bush of Oeanthus cordulatus in the Cordulatus Brush area (see journal.183)S of camp. This bird was chipping low down in the brush when collected. It or 1, 2 or 3 others had been seen at several other locations in this area. I especially finely colored bird was seen but not taken, it didn't hang around long enough.
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Gullion 1949 Isthlypis trichas Aug 30 Willow Creek, 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 female plumaged bird collected from a tangle of dead branches of a willow in the Bush Bottom about 1 mile N of Willow Creek. It was foraging over an extensive area of juncus and a widespread patch of shallow water. Summary Northwest Coast Transit, Calif. - This was the only inland record for this species on this trip. Dr. Miller and others saw yellow throats at Big Sagoon.
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Hudson 1949 detona visens -1- Aug 29 Willow Creeks 400 ft. Humboldt B., Calif. 1 bird collected from a Blackberry (Rubus recursans) tangle around a clump of marrow-leaved willows (Salix hindsiana). It was seen eating ripe blackberries a short time before it was taken. At least 1 more bird was heard in adjacent blackberry tangles. Aug 31 same locality - Both today and yesterday I found quite a number of chats in the Blackberry tangles along the little stream running from the highway to the Trinity River. There must be at least one bird in every 200 square feet of this habitat, amounting to a total population for this area of 20 to 30 birds. They seem to be busily feeding on the ripe berries in these tangles.
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Pallion 1949 Passer domesticus -1- Aug 19 Orick, Humboldt Co., Calif. - At least 10 seen calling and "singing" about the buildings along the highway through town. Summary Northwest Coast Transit, Calif. - English Sparrows were scarce in this area, and the only records we obtained was the above one at Orick.
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Bullion 1949 Phenicus melanoccephalus -1- Aug 10 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - A Thimme collected along the edge of the Spruce forest E of Camp. It was in an alder tree - had been feeding on the ground underneath - others were believed in the immediate vicinity but not seen. These were Russet-backed Thrushes very close by. (see Journal p. 116) Aug 29 Willow Creek, Lostt., Humboldt Co., Calif. Saw but didn't take, a bird in female plumage in the willows among the black berries in the Brush Bottom (see journal p. 165) habitat under a blazing sun. Aug 30 same locality - Took one of a dozen or more birds feeding on black berries in this same area. After collecting this bird, when I picked it up to plug it, black berry juice ran out of its mouth instead of blood. Summary Northwest Transect, Calif. - These grosbeaks were seen only at the two low-elevation camps. They were in the Big Lagoon area, taking advantage of the ripe elder-berries etc.; and in the Willow Creek area feeding on blackberries and Coffee-berries.
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Pink Siskin - Johnson Prairie Sept 1 - collected from about 60 yards wide feeding on the cones of a Douglas Fir.
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Gullus 1949 Carpodacus cassinii -1- Sept 10 Red Mtn., South, 5300ft, 14 mi S Bay fork Trinity R., fall. 1 ♀ plumaged bird collected from in a White Fir over the spring at our camp-site about 7 a.m. today. These birds have been in this area daily but have proven to be difficult to take. This is the only bird taken at this camp, tho Dr. Leopold got at least 3 on the sides of South Dubakella Mtn a couple of miles N of here.
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Hullon 1949 Spinus pinus -1- Sept 1 1 mi WSW Brannan Mtn, 3500 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 bird of about a dozen collected from a flock feeding in the top of a Douglas Fir. This bird was in a fir cone at the time it was clipped. This tree was on the edge of Johnson Prairie, a 10-2 acre grassy opening surrounded by Douglas Fir, Incense Cedar forest with some Pinyon Oak and Ponderosa Pine scattered around. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - Pinos siskins were fairly abundant in the Big Lagoon area, both in the Maple Creek area of Sitka Spruce and in the Douglas Fir- Redwood forest at 1700 ft on the ridge E of the lagoon. At French Camp they were less frequently encountered; and at Willow Creek they were seen only so, the Brannan Mtn area. At Red Mtn they were still more infrequently encountered, in fact I only saw two in this area of White Fir- Jeffrey Pine.
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Bullion 1949 Loxia curvirostra -1- Aug 13 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. A parent bird seen feeding a young in a Sitka Spruce N of Camp. One of the two birds was knocked down but never recovered. - Later, 1 bird at the water-hole just E of camp- and Keith Murray saw two bathing and drinking at the same water hole still later this afternoon. Aug 23 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- Collected one from atop a small Incense Cedar in camp. Seemed to be alone- no other birds Crosshills in the vicinity at the moment. Sept 1 1 mi. W Brannan Mtn, 3300 ft., Humboldt Co. Calif. A single bird was heard flying over the Douglas Fir forest at the little bog lake at the head of the east fork of Three Creek about 2 p.m. It continued flying directly south. Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif.- Crosshills were common only at Big Lagoon and French Camp. At Big Lagoon they stayed pretty much in the tops of the Sitka Spruces. At French Camp they came down into the camp to feed on egg shell and were very often right overhead in the Douglas Firs. They were very common there. At
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Buller 1949 Loxia curvirostra -2- Summary-cont'd the Willow Creek camp the single record was the one from W of Brannan Mtn, and at Red Mtn a couple of birds were heard flying over the camp during the morning of our first day in camp (Sept. 6). No others were recorded.
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Gulliver 1949 Chloris chloris chlorus chlorus Sept 7 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co. Calif. / collected from a Ferry Oak (6 foot one) in the midst of a Manigita - Careothus cuneatus Thicket on the edge of an extensive bald south slope in th saddle N of Red Mtn. This bird responded when I was trying to call a Brown Towhee out of another series of bushes several yards away.
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Zulloni Sparrow 1949 Passerculus sandwichensis -1- Aug 13 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co. Calif.- 1 taken in the pasture S of Camp (see journal p 116) this morning. It had flown up from bathing at the bend of Maple Creek and then flew out to a small stand of Blockberry in the pasture, from which it was collected. Other similar sparrows, at least 5 of them, were feeding in the grass nearby, flying when the shot was fired. Sept 3 2 1/2 mi. N Willow Creek, 500 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 bird collected from a Baccharis bush along the edge of a cornfield on the Patterson Ranch. Several birds were feeding with Mourning Doves in the grassy area between rows in the cornfield. I flushed several and was finally able to collect this one. Sept 8 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. I flushed and collected on a rocky weately running ridge of the first hill S of camp. Some scrubby Jeffrey Pine scattered around with scattered bushes of Ceanothus cuneatus, Brewer Oak and Brown-berry Manzanita. The bird flushed from bare ground and flew into a Brewer Oak 2 feet high. - When this bird was skinned I found it to be thickly coated with a white solid fat unlike any other fat I have seen on birds.
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Sparrow. 1 of 3 birds collected from a narrow-leaved willow Salix surrounded by blackberry in the Brush Bottom (see fig p.165) habitat. They were feeding on blackberries. This bird turns out to be in the worst plumage of the lot.
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Pullen 1949 Passerculus sandwichensis - 2 - Note: - 3 birds of the species were taken in the Big Lagoon area on August 15 but no account was made of them, except in the journal, pages 129 and 130. - Quoting from the journal, "took 1 Savannah Sparrow in the pasture just below the Maple Creek Bridge (N of the log pond see journal p.124), then a 2nd one in the Carex along the bank of the first bend of the creek." "Collected a Savannah Sparrow on the edge of a Carex stand" - on the N edge of the "Island" near the "New Channel" Summary Northwest Coast Transect, Calif. - These sparrows were most frequently encountered at Big Lagoon, being common or abundant among the emergent marsh vegetation at the S end of the lagoon, and being fairly common in the pastures S and E of camp. None were recorded at French Camp, but they were found again in the agricultural fields on the valley floor at Willow Creek. At Red Mtn., the one bird taken was the only one recorded.
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Gullion 1949 Chondestes grammacus -1- Aug 29 Willow Creek, 400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - One of three birds was collected from a narrow-leafed willow (Salix hindsiana) surrounded by domestic blackberry in the Brush Bottom (see found p.165) habitat. They were feeding on blackberries - this bird turned out to be in the worst plumage of the lot.
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Androsi 1949 Passerella iliaca -1- Sept 9 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 14 mi. E S Hayfork, Trinity Co, Calif. 1 bird collected on the west of the ridge just S of camp (7:15 a.m.). The bird was foraging on the bare ground between fairly widely spaced Caesothus cuneatus bushes. It flushed onto the top of one of these bushes under a 20 foot Jeffrey Pine. The ground has a few junio nailos scattered around and a few dried up tufts of grass, otherwise it is bare dirt with many rock outcrops. The Caesothus bushes are all low, heavily browsed by deer with much dead material in them, forming (1 1/2 foot high) a low, spreading dense canopy with lots of edge. Also a little Brewer Oak and Brown-berry Manzanita in the area. The sun did not get to this area until 7:45 am. 1/2 hour after the bird was active. (The Poorwill I took the first night here had been calling from this vicinity before it flew down to meet me). A second one was collected (without a smashed bill) from the open slope a little further up the ridge. This bird had also been foraging among Caesothus cuneatus bushes away from any pines, and popped up on one to chip, it flew from one to another, and finally was collected from the top of a Brown-berry Manzanita. The sun had been on this slope for only a few minutes. - Notes - after todays hunting I see why we had
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overlooked these birds until today. Before the heat of the day began and as long & as I worked slopes which the sun had not yet really begun to boil down on I found these birds very common, with each isolated brush group having at least one bird, and groups of several occupying larger brush areas. But about 11 a.m., working to the same areas after the sun had been on them for hours, and it was getting warm, these fox sparrows had completely vanished and gave absolutely no sign of their presence.
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Hullion 1949 Passercella iliaca Sept 9 Red Mtn, 5300 ft, 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. overlooked these birds until today. Before the heat of the day began and as long as I worked slopes which the sun had not yet really begun to boil down on I found these birds very common, with each isolated clump brush group having at least one bird, and groups of several occupying the larger brush areas. But about 11 a.m., working thru the same areas after the sun had been on them for 1 or 2 hours, and it was getting warm, these fox sparrows had completely vanished and gave absolutely no clue to their presence.
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Hullman 1949 Melospiza melodia -1- Aug 13 Big Lagoon Humboldt Co Calif - I have seen these birds in all of the local habitats except the wide-open pasture and the densest Scirpus marsh. Yesterday they were common in the more open Scirpus clumps on the island by the mouth of Maple Creek (see found p 124) and today one was roosting in the Carex clumps along a quiet pool in the darkest, densest part of the Spruce Forest E of Camp (see found p 116) Aug 15 same locality - 1 taken in a mammal trap set under a wood fern on the soggy litter along a still pool in the deepest spruce forest E of camp. Aug 17 same locality - 2 birds were seen today along the W side of the S arm of the old mouth of Maple Creek (see found p 124). They were exceedingly brown, much more of a cinnamon color than any others I have seen. Two of the darker birds were feeding with them on a muddy clearing in dense Scirpus growth. Aug 29 Willow Creek 400 ft Humboldt Co Calif - Several birds seen among the blackberries in the Brush Bottom habitat (see found p. 165)
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Hullon 1949 Sorex sp? -t Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 shrew taken under a pile of dry dead brush, about 200 feet from nearest water. Brush and rock inter mixed in a nearly pure stand of tan oak, with poison oak mixed in, also Oregon Grape and Dogwood.
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Gullai 1949 Sorex trowbridgii -1- Aug 13 - Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 taken in the spruce forest E. of Camp (see journal p. 116). Trap was set in a dug out burrow under moss and spruce litter near a quiet pond. The Salmonberry Rubus speciosus is the immediate overhead cover - the soil is damp, but not soggy.
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Sorex pacificus Aug 10 Big Lagoon Humboldt Bay Co Calif - Two taken by snap Trap in the Spruce Forest E of Camp. Two Traps, one on top of a 10 inch moss covered log and the other under the log- both caught a shrew. Ground covered with moss under a thick Canopy of spruce and Salmonberry Rubus specosalis. Nearby - 2 or 3 feet away was edge of moist area supporting a dense growth of sedge interspersed w/ very large plants of Shunk cabbage Lupinion kamschatensis (see journal p 116) Aug 11 same locality - using same trap line as above Tork. one specimen in Trap set next to base of a Sedge. Carex obupta?, with sedge and shunk cabbage leaves forming a canopy, soil moist & moss covered - bait still intact. Another specimen (?) taken under same moss covered log used yesterday. Aug 13 same locality - 1 taken in Carex along a small quiet pool in the same Spruce forest as above. Aug 14 same locality - 1 taken under Shunk cabbage Sword Fern moss. 1 Taken in pure Carex along still pond. 1 taken under [illegible] ground
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Hullon 1949 Sorex pacificus -2- Aug 15 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 taken in dense cover on very soggy ground beside a still pool in the spruce forest E of Camp.
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Gulloni 1949 Myotis yumanensis - 1 Aug 10 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 Perched down but not found on the S W edge of The Spruce Forest E of camp (see ground p. 116). This was one of many similar looking bats that were coming out of the west side of the forest and flying directly west towards the lagoon, with very little fluttering around. Aug 12 Same locality - 1 of many fleeing about the spruces along the edge of the millpond, and out over the mill pond, was collected.
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Gallon 1949 Myotis californicus -/- Aug 28 3 mi. N Willows Creek, 700 ft, Humboldt Co, Calif. The first bat flying tonight along Coon Creek was collected about 6:30 p.m. This evening. I fired a .38 at it and it immediately went into a spiral, landing in a nearby tree. I had time then to knock out my .38 and reload, returning to finally knock it down. Apparently firing a shot under a closed canopy jams the "radar" system of the bat, temporarily at least, and they begin spinning upwards, until they strike an object that they can cling to until they get straightened out again, or if they don't hit an object they just circle on up into clear sky, until they recover their senses and go again.
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Gullion 1949 Mustela vison - 1 - Aug 15 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co, Calif. I encountered about 2:30 p.m. on the side of a mud bank along an old channel of Maple Creek, below the Hammond Lumber Co. Bridge. It was foraging along the base of the bank. When I saw it I fired on it with a full load of #10 shot, perhaps evidencing the animal but by no means stopping it. it dashed into the nearby Scirpus where I chased it, getting very close on 2 or 3 but not being able to make the hill. Finally it dashed to another - Thicker - patch of Scirpus where I lost track of it. It was a dark chocolate brown, a very sleek animal, about 15 to 18 inches long. Aug 17 - same locality at 9:15 this morning, while working over a Virginia Rail I had just collected, a mink came thru the dense Eleocharis lining the west edge of the "Duck Pond" in the Marsh at the south end of the lagoon. It came to within about 4 feet of me before I realized it was there, and believing it a rat, I was preparing to club it with the
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Gullion 1949 Mustela vison -2- Aug 17 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.- butt of my gun. When less than arms length away, I started to swing, it saw me, I saw that it was a 12-14 inch Mink, and it left before I got a shot at it. It ran for the Sedges while for cover, but kept in the Cleochris as it ran. Earlier today a Sora that I dropped from about 100 feet, disappeared before I got to it. From the size of the pool of blood where the bird dropped, and the fact that I didn't see it move a farther after dropping, leads me to suspect a Mink got to it before I did. That happened over along the Old Channel of Maple Creek on the NE side of the marsh.
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Pocket Gopher - Sept 9 Red Mtn - I have found the cores of one burrows of these animals at several points along the ridge N of Red Mtn and on Red Mtn I have seen no fresh workings but the abundance of "cores" certainly indic the presence of the species.
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Gullion 1949 Paris Lattons -1- Sept 3, 3 1/2 mi. W Willow Creek, 2600 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 fine looking coyote with a reddish-brown shoulder region and ears seen on the road Three Creek Road at the 2600 foot elevation. Time was 3:50 p.m., clear and hot. It ran uphill, making quite a bit of racket in the leaf litter as it scotched away.
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Dullon 1949 Citellus merchiensis -1- Sept 1 1 mi. W Branman Mtn., 3400 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 of 2 young animals taken in a log pile at a loading area in the cut-over Douglas Fir forest about 1/2 mile N of Johnson Prairie. This area is quite open but without grassy cover, except for the immediate area disturbed by logging operations the ground is well covered with Tanoak forest, the former understory for the now decimated Douglas Fir Forest. Sept 9 Red Mtn., 5300 ft., 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. 1 medium sized individual collected at 11:10 a.m. These animals prove extremely difficult to collect although they are frequently encountered. They are very shy and seldom get far from their holes. This one, despite a terrific load of shot in its body, still got under cover when I had difficulty getting it. On the 7th at least two that I'm sure were mortally wounded were able to tumble from their top of a rock spout into their holes and safety. Every one I have encountered (and that is about two dozen in the first mile of ridge S of camp) has been sitting on top of a broken mass of rocks. Their holes on this ridge are exclusively in the large cracks and crevices among these broken rock out crops. Only two have been seen off of one of these outcrops and both of those
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ran directly to a rock or crop for cover. Their food at the time of the eggs seems to be the young cones of the abundant Jeffrey Pine, at least the rocks and ground around every nest live pin has been littered with the "scales" of pin cones. They strip the cones completely, scales and all.
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Gullion 1949 Citellus beecheyi -2- Sept 9 Red Mtn. 5300 ft. 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. can directly to a rock outcrop for cover. Their food at this time of year seems to be the young cones of the abundant Jeffrey Pine, at least the rocks and ground around every post due seen has been littered with the "colors" of pine cones. They strip the cones completely, scales and all.
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Garlin 1949 Citellus lateralis -1- South Sept 10 Dubakella Mtn, 5500 ft. 13 mi S Hayfork Trinity Cldy. I collected from a rock outcropping on the base ridge extending S from South Dubakella Mtn. (10:25a.m). This animal was sitting on the rock, perhaps sunning itself. "Ebb" of Jeffrey Pine cones littered the rock from which it was taken. Ground is quite bare and rocky with a few stunted Jeffrey Pines scattered around and clumps of Eranthmus cuneatus and intergrionus, Rhusia tridentata and Holodiscus discolor are widely spaced on the ground. Some grass and a few herbs grow in the bits of soil available.
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Sullivan 1949 Cutamias amoenus -1- Sept.6 Red Mtn. 14 mi S Hayfork 5300 ft. Trinity Co. Calif. There seem to be a lot of these small chipmunks in this locality. They are much more confiding, forage in the open more, and scold persistently from exposed positions in direct opposition to E. amoenae and townsendi. Their habitat seems to me intermediate between that of amoenae and townsendi. They forage in the trees growing from Coarthus tangles and on the open forest floor, running around freely on cogs and coarse ground litter. They flick their tails quite constantly while foraging and run for the nearest stump or log butt to examine the situation when disturbed. Their calls are intermediate in pitch, giving both a warning "chee-chee-chee" very rapidly and a lower, steady 2 or 3 per second "chit-chit-chit-chit", each note being accompanied by a flick of the tail. Brown tipped guard hairs on the tail with a strongly bicolour ear and whitish face are good field marks. Sept 10 same locality - After several days watching chipmunks it is apparent that these animals are rather restricted in their range here, and perhaps at about the lowest elevation
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Hullion 1949 Cotomias amoenus -2- Sept 10 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork Trinity Co. Calif. tolerable. As soon as I drop into a mature forest area down off the ridge they drop out, or in a pure [illegible] chaparral they also drop out. It is the edge between these two elements, or where each is only partly developed that they are found. However, as I worked on up the barren ridges of South Dubabella Mtn., and the forest and chaparral became sparse, and rock more dominant, these chipmunks completely replaced the other species and in some places became quite abundant.
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Gullion 1949 Cutamias townsendii -/- Sept. 1 3 1/2 mi. W Willow Creek, 2600 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. I called out of the brush my Pygmy Owl calls and collected from under a dense forest canopy of Tan Oak without much underbrush. There was a little Masonic in the vicinity and very deep leaf litter on the ground. Sept. 6 Red Mtn. 14 mi. S Hayfork, 5300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif. I caught in a rat trap set about 2 feet above the ground on a leaning Abies concolor. At 7 a.m. when I picked it up, the body was still warm, indicating recent capture. The air was still plenty cool and fog on the top of the trees. This animal is not especially common here, but can be distinguished from the two other local chipmunks by its much lower voice and its preference for wooded areas, especially near water, which is the situation in which the above animal was taken. On Brannan Mtn., NW of Willow Creek in Humboldt Co., I heard this species, a few - in the Pine-Cedar Open Forest on the S side of the summit in the area occupied by E. sonomae, the later species being much more abundant. Here again these two species occur
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Cutamias townsendi -2- Sept 6 Red Mtn., 14 mi. S Hayfork, 5300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif. together, that is, in the same locality but apparently in different habitats. However, in this locality a third species E. sonomae, quite a bit smaller, occupies a habitat intermediate between townsendi and sonomae. E townsendi is not a conspicuous animal, and gives a single "put" note at 2 or 3 second intervals which neither of the other 2 seem to do. As soon as this animal is aware that some one is approaching it shuts up and is thus rarely seen - see accounts of other Eutamias species for comparison. Sept 10 same locality - This species proves to be the only chipmunk present in the mature stands of White Fir-Jeffrey Pine-Incense Cedar forests in which a brushy understory is absent. There it is an animal of fallen logs and upturned roots, and is often seen chasing one another up and down the trunks of the largest forest trees, ascending to considerable heights. It completely plays out when the forest element is left behind as one works onto the high ridges of South Dobabella Mtn.
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Hullion 1949 Cutemias sonomae -1- Sept. 1 1 mi. NW Willow Creek, 1000 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 very squeaky voiced individual heard in a Ceanothus cuneatus thicket in a dry area of Garry Oak, Ponderosa Pine and Incense Cedar on a rocky southward extending ridge from Brannon Mtn. -Brannon Mtn., 3900 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- A large number of animals with this very high squeaky & voice were heard in the Huckleberry Oak and Ceanothus brush in the Pine-Cedar Open forest (see journal p.170) on the ridge W of the summit of this mtn. They could not be called out of the densest part of the brush, but they readily responded by chattering at cat-calls etc. Sept 3 Brannon Mtn., 3700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 1 collected about 5:45 this evening. It was sitting up in the top of a Huckleberry Oak to scold when I collected it. During the cooling off period in the evening these animals become much more active. I saw 2 more while setting out traps and Cogswell collected one from our campsite about 6:15 p.m. Sept 6 Red Mtn., 14 mi. S Mayfork, 5300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif. This species is present in this locality.
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Gullion 1949 Cutamus sonomae -2- Sept 6 Red Mtn., 14 mi. S Hayfork, 5,300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif. and quite common. As at Brannan Mtn. it has an extremely high pitched note, sounding more like a bird's "chip" than that of a mammal. Its favorite habitat here as at Brannan Mtn. is the middle of a thick brush tangle. Here the brush is Ceanothus cuneatus and cordulatus . As before, these animals will scold for a long period of time but always out of sight in the middle of a brush tangle, and it very seldom shows itself out from the brush area. This animal will not become silent when one approaches but just keeps its extremely high pitched "chit-chit" going. Sept 9 same locality (9:50 a.m.) I collected on a sunny S facing slope covered with closely spaced Ceanothus cuneatus with scattered Jeffrey Pines and dense Bels and Gray Oak around. This animal was foraging under a Jeffrey Pine, in the shade, and ran for shelter in the Ceanothus. Sept 10 same locality Today, I found these animals to be common in the Brewer Oak and Ceanothus brush areas, but to be completely absent in any forest area from which those plants are absent; also it is left behind as one goes onto the higher barren slopes of South Dubabella Mtn.
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Sulloway 1949 Sciurus douglasii -1- Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 ? shot while scolding in the mixed Douglas Fir Tan Oak forest on the ridge N of Camp. Sept 1 1 mi. W Brannan Mtn., 3300 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 ♀ collected along [illegible] the dry bed at the head of the east branch of Three Creek just below a small pool. This animal was busily digging in leaf litter under a group of Tan Oaks and Madrone. Sept 4 Brannan Mtn., 3700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 ♂ collected from a dead lower limb on a large Jeffrey Pine on the crest of a ridge. This animal was chattering pretty steadily, had decent tester, and a white substance (semen?) was oozing from its penis after being shot. Sept 6 Red Mtn., 14 mi S Hayfork, 5300 ft., Trinity Co. 1 ♀ collected from a dead snag in the stream bottom at camp. A few moments before, a chickaree, supposedly the same one, was seen a few feet away carrying the remains of a Jeffrey Pine cone in its mouth. This animal had quite a bit of pitch around its mouth, and on its fore legs.
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Chpmonk / Sept 1. I collected at 2800 ft under a dense forest canopy of Chinquapin without much underbrush. A few Madrone in the vicinity.
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Hullon 1949 Sciurus griseus -1- Sept 1 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co. Calif. On August 27 I saw 2 of there squirrels feeding in Chinquapins along the road just N of camp in what I call Mixed Forest (Journal p. 158) later the same day (4:30 p.m.) while coming down Waterman Ridge (Cedar Creek Trail) above camp, one fine big animal came bounding across the needle and branch litter under a stand of Douglas Firs without undergrowth, leaped onto the trunk of a nearby fir and and quickly climbed to the top. At then ran from tree to tree crossing by interlacing branches. On August 31, one was seen in the Brush Bottom (Journal p. 165) area just N of Willow Creek. There this animal was again working through the trees by jumping from limb to limb. - Brannan Mtn 3950 feet, Humboldt Co. Calif.- 1 animal heard for the forest on the N side of the summit about 300 feet down slope. A second one was seen in the Douglas Fir on the divide just E of Johnson Prairie.
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3.45 Canned Milk -10 # # flour yeast cake Oleo 1# # lb 3 big Tomatoes 2 oz Peas & Lima Beans. Lunch Meat lettuce. 3 loaves bread. Soup & cans Coffee 2# 1 jar Jam. Mayonnaise Tomatoes Fried Fish Finishes Cheese. Cages 2 dozen. Dry Cereal Almons Baking Soda Canned Meats -
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Gulliver 1949 Glaucomys sabrinus -1- Aug 26 French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. - Between 12:15 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. this morning, I kept hearing [illegible] scurrying up the cedar tree about my bed. It was the same sort of noises I heard on the night of August 23. I was first awakened by a metallic "tit-tit-tit-tit" - - - - at 12:15 a.m. The animal quickly scurried up the tree, "tit"ing as it went. I lost track of it and went back to sleep. At 1:15 a.m., a crash in the foliage on the lower part of the tree awakened me again, and again the sound of scurrying up the tree, with much "tit"ing. This time the animal was still noisy high in the tree, then a moments silence - and the chattering was resumed in the small Douglas Fir east of camp, about 200 feet from the cedar-tree. The chattering animal could be heard going from tree to tree - then about a few minutes later - a flurry of scurrying on the tree near my bed and chattering as the animal ran up the tree. Then it worked along the trees south of camp, returning to the big cedar, made at least one more trip across the 200 foot gap to the east, and return. Scurrying and chattering was heard quite
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Cittella leechyi - Sept 1 - Johnson Prairie - 1 of 2 young animals found in a log pile at a loading area in the cut-over Douglas Fir forest about 1/2 mile N of Johnson Prairie. Area is quite open, but not grassy, except for immediate area of logging operations. The ground is well covered with Tanoak forest as understory for the depleted Douglas Fir forest.
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Glaucomys sabrinus Aug 26 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. constantly until I finally dozed off to sleep. Last I checked my watch it was 2:30a. m. Sept 3 Brannan Mtn., 3700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 1 or 2 animals heard scolding me in the early evening while I was calling in a Pygmy Owl. Later, about midnight, one was scurrying up a tree at the head of my sleeping bag when I awoke to the strange noises near my head. In both instances the trees involved were Incense Cedars. Sept 6 Red Mtn., 14 min S Hayfork, 5300 ft., Trinity Co., Calif. I caught in a Schuyler Trap set on the side of an Abies concolor about 6 feet above the ground, hung by a nail on the bark of the tree, open side up. Used two dried potatoes for bait. The animal had come down that tree to take the bait; at least it was in the trap head downward. Sept 10 same locality - Night before last I saw a flying squirrel leap out of the top of a 40ft. White Fir and glide about 81 feet to the trunk of a large cedar, but instead of landing on the cedar it veered off to the left at about a 60° angle and finally landed on the base of another White Fir 37 feet further on. The total leap
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Squirrel) Sept 1 - On Aug 27 I saw 2 of these animals feeding in chinquapins along the road just north of Camp, in what I call Wried Forest (Journal p. 158). late the same day (4:30 a.m.) while coming down The Waterman Ridge (Cedar Creek Trail) above camp, one fine big animal came bounding across the needle and branch litter under a stand of douglas firs without undergrowth, leaped onto the trunk of a nearly fair and quickly climbed to the top, then it ran from tree to tree crossing by interlacing branches. On Aug 31 I am seen in the Broad Bottom (Journal p. 165) near N of Willimi Creek where this animal was again working through the trees by jumping from limb to limb.
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Buller 1949 Glaucomys sabrinus -3- Sept 18 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 14 min. S Hayford Trinity Co. Cal. covers about 118 feet of horizontal distance. As the animal started to turn and for the last part of its flight a distinct "whirri" like sound could be heard which I assume was the sound of the air passing rapidly over its fur.-Last night as the dishes were being washed and all four of us were gathered around the lamp, 1 squirrel flew into the lighted area, slowing into the branches about 3 feet overhead. Without pausing it scrambled to the trunk of the tree and very quickly vanished into the foliage up the tree.
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Gullion 1949 Thomomys bottae -/- Sept 9 Red Mtn., 5300 ft. 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. I have found the cores of snow burrows of these animals at several points along the ridge N of Red Mtn, and on Red Mtn. I have seen no fresh workings, but the abundance of "cores" certainly indicates the presence of the species.
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Julhoi 1949 Peromyscus maniculatus - 1 Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 9 animals taken in 25 traps set in open meadow, under bracken fern, in juncus, by rocks with tunnels under them and under tan oaks lithocarpus densiflora. Aug 23 same locality - 13 very brown animals taken at scattered points along the trap line ging down hill from camp (see journal p.148). Unds such diverse habitats as Incense Cedar, scrub Tan Oak, small Douglas Fir's poison oak covered rock outcroppings, under a burned log, and along a small stream lined by maiden-hair fern and moss covered rocks. Aug 24 same locality - 1 [progeny?] sub-adult taken under 2 isolated Incense Cedars, surrounded by barren ground. - 1 brownish adult taken in a opening, about 8 feet from the nearest tree - an incense cedar. Some broken fern within 2 & 1 foot of trap, also very little grass cover. rocky soil. 1 gray-brown mouse taken among dead branch tangle under a 3 foot-very thick-young douglas Fir - also some broken ferns in the tangle. 1 gray-mottling to brown-sub adult taken by tail at based small fir snag, a few 15 inch high Doug Firs scattered about 18 inches apart but other wise ground quite
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Hullow 1949 Peromyscus maniculatus -2- Aug 24 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - barren - some slight amount of leaf litter. A brown adult ♂ (Tag # 4) taken in same trap that a lactating ♀ was taken yesterday - at end of line - under a clump of tan oak on the edge of a wire-grass - Bracken Fern & clearing on the edge of a tan oak forest. 1 brown one taken alive along small stream, under mossy logs, with Five-finger Fern and Western Angelica the immediate environment; this animal was released. Sept 4 Branman Mtn., 3700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - immature taken on edge of clearing under Canotthus cuneatus. Branman Mtn., 3950 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 adult taken under auckle berry oak about 20 feet down from the top of the mtn on the north side. Ground covered with pine needles. - 1 gray, large eared adult taken in open under young Sugar Pines on N slope of summit about 100 feet down slope. Ground covered with about 1 inch of pine needle litter. Property Peromyscus truei
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Bulletin 1949 Neotoma fuscipes -1- Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft Humboldt Co. Calif. 1 - 81.9 gram young caught in a snap trap set under a wood rat house. The animal was caught across the neck and did not put up a considerable struggle. The nest is built in a tree of [illegible] ? among an acre stand of tanoak. - see next page -
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Gullion 1949 Neotoma fuscipes -2- Sept 4 Brannan Mtn., 3700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 gray animal taken by trap in a broad (1 foot) well marked run-away over bare ground between clumps of [illegible] - [illegible] Brannan Mtn., 3950 feet. Humboldt Co., Calif. - 1 brown individual taken in a trap set at the base of a small Madrone surrounded by Brush Tan Oak, Golden-cup Oak and Huckleberry Oak on the N side of the summit of this mtn., about 30 feet down slope. Neither of the above animals were near known wood-rat houses.
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Gullion 1949 Clethrionomys californicus -1- Aug 24 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. - I taken under an Incense Cedar on edge of barren opening in Incense Cedar-Douglas Fir Open Forest-(see Journal p. 1424/46). Moss on the ground, very dark, branches of cedar and firs 3's or nearly touching? to ground. Leaves of nearby Black Oak added to the fir and cedar leaf litter on the ground
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Hullon. 1949 Zapus trinotatus -1- Aug 10 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.- Collected one bird in the Sitka Spruce forest E of Camp. The trap was in an area of thick gooseberry Rubus spectabilis on the edge of an area of extensive sedge-ground covered with moss, some ferns and an overhead canopy of spruce. Trap baited with walnuts. (see form p. 1/6) Aug 12 same locality - 1 taken in a pure stand of sedge Carex under an alder canopy with scattered large spruce trees. Aug 14 same locality - 1 taken in pure stand of Carex along a still pond, in a Sitka spruce forest. Aug 15 same locality 1 taken under Carex on edge of still pond in spruce forest. 1 taken beside a log near Carex along the same pond.
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Gullin 1949 Odocileus hemionus -1- Aug 11 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - Chased a ♀ and a well grown fawn out of a willow-alder bottom about 100 yds NE of the Maple Creek Bridge (see Journal p. 116). They crossed the open Thistle covered field and road to go into cow along Maple Creek (9:30 a.m.) Aug 22 French Camp 3100ft, Humboldt Co., Calif. - At least 1 scared out of the draw above the small stream in the ridge s on the slope south of camp (see Journal p. 148). I heard a lot of noise yesterday in the Tan Oak forest that I suspect was made by deer, but didn't see any. Couldn't be sure, but the size of the hump of this animal surely looked big enough for a buck. Sept 9 Red Mtn., 5300ft. 14 mi Stayfork, Trinity Co., Calif. 3 bucks were flushed out from the base of a Jeffrey Pine when I fired at a Spotted Towhee. 1 was a forked horn and the other 2 both with 3 points. They had been lying down together. None of them went very far through the brome berrry, manzanita at first, but Cogwell scared them a moment later and they cleared out of the area promptly.
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