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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Jose, 2500 ft., lat. 31°
Date: Oct. 23
Page Number: 2602

6589 Thomomys (female sign) 123g. 207 x 58 x 29 x 5. In sandy bottom, where bermuda & salt grass grow.
6590 “ (female sign) 96g. 190 x 57 x 25 x 4. “ “ “ “ “ “

This forenoon I worked the washes and foothills
north of the ranch one to two miles, against the
lower range of mountains toward Socorro. In
a broad shallow wash down west from those
mountains found a well-marked yucca association:
a kind of yucca, of stalks 6 to 8 feet high [= buccata?];
low clumps of cholla cactus, greasewood, sage-brush,
some alder and rhus laurina bushes. Here I
found the following birds: Shrike (one, perching
from station to station in yucca tips on bare
burned bush tips - too shy to approach closely
enuf for a shot); Cactus Woodpecker(one, shot, on
yuccas, calling characteristically, finally lit in a
big desert tea bush); Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (one
company of about 5, in buckwheat, greasewood and sage;
kitten-like calls I now think quite like birds in
Southern California; hard to see, and soon scattered
and became quiet - lost); Ball Sparrow (few, about 6
all told, seemingly in pairs); Brown Towhee (2);
Bewick Wren (2+); Say Phoebe (1); Intermediate
Sparrow (commonest of the birds - perhaps all 25 told).

Then worked the willows down-stream from the
ranch. Saw a Red-breasted and a Red-naped (shot)
Sapsucker close together. Heard a Lawrence Goldfinch
in flight overhead, as also a Green-backed Goldfinch. Saw one
Russet-backed (?) Thrush.

S3 Page 59

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Jose, 2500 ft., lat. 31°
Date: Oct. 23
Page Number: 2602

6589 Thomomys (female sign) 123g. 207 x 58 x 29 x 5. In sandy bottom, where bermuda & salt grass grow.
6590 “ (female sign) 96g. 190 x 57 x 25 x 4. “ “ “ “ “ “

This forenoon I worked the washes and foothills
north of the ranch one to two miles, against the
lower range of mountains toward Socorro. In
a broad shallow wash down west from those
mountains found a well-masked yucca association:
a kind of yucca, of stalks 6 to 8 feet high [= buccata?];
low clumps of cholla cactus, greasewood, sage-brush,
some alder and rhus laurina bushes. Here I
found the following birds: Shrike (one, perching
from station to station in yucca tips on bare
burned bush tips - too shy to approach closely
enuf for a shot); Cactus Woodpecker(one, shot, on
yuccas, calling characteristically, finally lit in a
big desert tea bush); Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (one
company of about 5, in buckwheat, greasewood and sage;
kitten-like calls I now think quite like birds in
Southern California; hard to see, and soon scattered
and became quiet - lost); Ball Sparrow (few, about 6
all told, seemingly in pairs); Brown Towhee (2);
Bewick Wren (2+); Say Phoebe (1); Intermediate
Sparrow (commonest of the birds - perhaps all 25 told).

Then worked the willows down-stream from the
ranch. Saw a Red-breasted and a Red-naped (shot)
Sapsucker close together. Heard a Lawrence Goldfinch
in flight overhead, as also a Green-backed Goldfinch. Saw one
Russet-backed (?) Thrush.