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Status: Indexed

Author: Grinnell-1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.
Date: June 19
Page Number: 2480

Later: found the Traill Flycatcher's nest some 7 feet
up in a crotch of slender willow stem in the midst
of an isolated willow clump in the meadow - just in
process of construction. In a tract of old lodge-
pole pine
s a little farther along, a crowd of birds
was distraught over something, tho I failed to find
what the threatening danger was. The crowd included:
Juncos, a pair of Robins, a Lincoln Sparrow, a
Pigmy Nuthatch (the first I have seen in the Lassen
"section"
), a Hammond (or Wright) Flycatcher, several
Chipping Sparrows, and a pair of Audubon Warblers.
Nearby was a (female) White-headed Woodpecker.

As to mammals: winter earthcores of Thomomys
monticola
occur in places where the ground is
well-drained at the sides of meadows but not out
in them. The common chipmunk is Eutamias
amoenus
, about logs overgrown with snowbushes, but
they are very quiet now; two visit camp, but so
far are shy. A (female) Eutamias senex was trapped
in a neighbor's camp yesterday morning at 5 o'clock.
Last evening just before sundown, Dixon shot an old
male jack-rabbit (Lepus c. californicus) in a tract
of sparse snowbush. Mrs. G. has seen another partly
grown one in the same vicinity. This must be
the extreme easternmost limit of this subspecies
in the "section". Also, Mrs. G. and Dixon have
both seen individuals of the snow-shoe rabbit
(Lepus w. klamathensis).

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kdodd

unknown1 - ??

nbahet

unknown1 - "earthcores," apparently refers to the snow tunnels of Thomomys.