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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 3
Page Number: 2565

Trap-line this morning brot only the following:
Peromyscus boylei, 1 (female sign), under willows by stream- aspens
only a few yards away!; P. truei, 3 (female sign female sign), 1 (male sign), from
under edges of boulders adjacent to bushes. None
of the females contained embryos.
Lamb continues ill, pretty weak -- "malaria", recurrent
after his getting it in the Cape San Lucus region two
years ago. I didn't venture long from camp. Even
so, good things turned up, as per list of specimens
saved. The Canyon Wren is the only one so far
seen. I heard its low-pitched call note in one of the
characteristic boulder piles marking an outcrop,
nowhere near the stream. I heard at least three
Slender-billed nuthatches today, all in pines, and
got sight of the one taken. The only Hummer seen
today was the Anna taken. A lone Brewer
Blackbird tarried at the creek by camp a few
minutes. Saw another Lutescent Warbler, one Ruby-
crowned Kinglet, and 3 Pileolated Warblers (including
the one shot). All these were in the willows and
the first two had been bathing. Heard another
Hermit Thrush tonight. A Red-tailed Hawk has
his perch near here, and squalls at intervals,
seemingly only when the Ravens fly close to
him. I heard a Horned Owl in the night.
Today I have seen at least 4 ground squirrels
(beecheyi, subsp.). They live under boulders in
burrows excavated back under them; one was