Field notes, v1344
Page 411
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J.G.Hall 1954 177 June 4 Cabin Creek, 10,500ft., White Mts., Mono Co., Calif. Ahead of the truck for 40 or 50 feet before flying; Ward thought they had chicks nearby. Once up on the flats we had wide panorama to White Mt. Peak to W. & Boundary Peak to N. & others we didn't know. Vegetation was dwarfed sagebrush amongst which were many white rod dropping of sagehens. We saw no sagehens, however. We noted one horse & 3 or 4 herdfords graz- ing on the sparse grass growing in the lower spots. Frank spotted a beautiful adult Mt. Coyote in the grass of a wet little meadow about 500 yds N of us. It watched us, little concerned, and slowly edged farther away & up a gentle slope. Somewhat farther on we approached a great jumble of black rocks rising perhaps 50' above the plain and here Frank spotted (it) what he took to be two bobcats. They turned out to be young coyotes and they disappeared into a den in the rocks. We presumed that the