Field notes, v1377
Page 539
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Journal R.E.Johnson 1967 August.1 Cabinet Mtns, Bonner Co., Idaho (cont.) Male and a female Tephrocotis. Littoralis was the race reported here (sight observations in the Murrelet) and this had appeared to me unlikely and this suspicion is now confirmed. A Fisherman had contoured from some lake on Lightning Creek and located a nest and birds he had called littoralis. I have been unable to find a lake on that drainage where this could be true. Porcupine Lake may conceivably have Rosy Finches above it but certainly more anywhere near on level with it. Perhaps the most likely possibility is an unnamed lake east of Sketchman #2 which must drain into the East Fork of East Fork Creek. This lake is located in Montana north of point 6416 on the E-W ridge that separates Lincoln & Saunders Cos. It is not on the topo maps, but is on the shelf shown in green on the maps (meadow not forest) as located above & west of Little Spar Lake. It is of good size & may have fish in it. The cliffs of the ridge south of it are verticle & have snow below them & the whole area has a Rosy Finch look, more so than does Sketchman#2. Also the head of Spar Creek (above Little Spar Lake) and around Sawtooth Mtn & Middle Mtn (so. of Little Spar Lake several miles) have a very alpine look with cliffs & snow on the north faces. The ridge south toward Sketchman#1 is also quite alpine & may serve as feeding area for finches. Two young Rosy Finches were collected in a large (2ft. dby, 20ft height high) White-bark Pine where they were