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Inverness, 100 ft., Marin Co., Calif.
Mar. 27,
Noted a Ringfisher sitting on a telephone line at the mouth of one of the canyons (whose bottom was a small stream - pond at mouth) about 3/4 mi. N. Inverness; a great blue heron near this locality but in the salt water tidelands.
Mar. 28,
Went north of Pt. Reyes Station last night to the locality Grand Canyon, 2 mi. N. Pt. Reyes Station and BivoloƩ, 2 mi. N. Pt. Reyes Station. Grand Canyon is one of the several wooded canyons which interrupts the even, rolling hills on the north side of Tomales Bay. BivoloƩ is (or rather was) a settlement located at the mouth of Grand Canyon. Only an old road house or "liquor joint" now marks the spot, as regards houses. In the canyon the following plants grow: poison oak, Calif. bay, willow (along stream), Baccharis, and grass - the last filling in the spaces between chaparral or trees. This vegetation is on both slopes, but more dense on the NW-facing than on the SE-facing. A stream now flows in the bottom of the canyon, however.