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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 9
Page Number: 2578

6456 Slender-billed Nuthatch (female sign) ad. 16.8g. Shot from bole of pine.
6457 Sierra (?) Junco (male sign) im. 18.3g. Shot on ground among salvia bushes.
This was the only junco of this form seen so far; alone.
6458 Junco (male sign) ad. 18.3g. bill, pinkish white; iris sepia; shot in willow.
6459 Junco (male sign) im. 18.8g. bill, pinkish white; iris sepia; shot in willow with the last.
6460 Bluebird (female sign) im. 27.3g. Shot in pine.
6461 Bluebird (male sign) im. 28.2. Shot in pine.
6462 Bluebird (male sign) im. 29.9. Shot in pine.
6463 Bluebird (male sign) ad. 28.5g. Shot in pine.
6464 Cabanis Woodpecker (female sign) 46.7g. Shot in pine.
6465 Cabanis Woodpecker (female sign) 53.6g. Shot in pine.
This morning I went off to the south about
2 miles up a draw and into some hills
where there was considerable of the oak growth
that looked good for birds from a distance. I
saw nothing there, however, not common around
camp; only a few Mountain Chickadees, one
small company of Bluebirds, two Cabanis
Woodpeckers
, and the ever-present Pigmy Nuthatches.
All of these were in or about pines, not in the
oaks at all. Oh yes, -- two Ravens flew over. Most
of the birds put up today, and listed above, I shot
within half a mile of camp. Of the bluebirds,
pigmy nuthatches, and chickadees, there is a
seemingly exhaustless supply right around us.
Saw a Tanager today, in the cascara thickets,
where I shot one the other day. Heard the

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Nathani

6457 The "(?) appears to have been added later. 6461-6463: The name and collection notes are dittoed. 6465 Name and location dittoed.