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R.E. Johnson
1967
Journal
24
June 11 Mt Shasta, Siskiyou Co., California (cont.)
canyon and land on the rock & sing loudly (all chirps,
no oinks) for at least 5 minutes & then fly east.
I, therefore, stationed myself near the rock. A bird
flew over going east after I'd been watching 35 min.
Shortly a bird appeared from the east & I collected
it, as noted above, at 3:15 PM. Beneath this
rock on the ground were a large number of
feathers of a fairly large bird. Either the bird was
carried there by a predator or lived here because
the number of feathers (50±) were too many to have
arrived in one place by wind action. The feathers
were collected since so few species seen to occur
here.
white
dark brown
downy
2 inches 4 1/2
inches
white
dark brown
with
tan color on
this side &
greenish
reflection
tan
dark brown
feather with
numerous tan
markings.
3 1/2 inches
tan
at 3:40 PM a Rosy Finch appeared on a rock below
to the SE on the lip of Mud Creek Canyon. It chirped