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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Lassen Section (Brokeoff Mt.)
Date: June 17, 1925
Page Number: 2472

one in the distance); Hammond Flycatcher (one
right now saying "see-Tuck" faintly in red fir over
my head); Junco (I hear one now and then
trilling in the distance); Nutcracker (I heard the nasal
call and proceeded to give my usual "bluejay" call, when
5 came up, calling, one after another into the treetops close
about, to see the cause; soon satisfied, they quietly
departed); Chipping Sparrow (one keeps singing a little
way off away young firs and hemlocks the only
snow all about!); Audubon Warbler (one singing in the
distance).
1:30 p.m. - In same vicinity; just heard a
regulation "chorus" of two Hylas, seemingly from under
the snow where the water is running noisily. A tributary
comes from a snow-water pond hemmed in by rock, and
with a snow bank on one side extending to the bottom,
3 feet or so, thru which the snow looks blue like ice.
1:50 p.m. - An unmistakable Red-Tailed Hawk circling
above the tops of the red firs! Must be poor hunting
right here. I have seen no signs of rabbits or conies;
only 2 or 3 Amoenus Chipmunk, 2 chickadees, and
a little sign of Thomomys monticola. No deer tracks above
the first drifts of snow, but lots of them down thru
the chaparral; saw track of a fawn with its
mother in the trail. Saw last night's tracks of
Marten and Red Fox in the snow, the former in 4's
like a very large weasel's.
2:15 p.m. - Just found a Creeper's nest, about 9

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nbahet

unknown1 - though I can't read it, I surmise it means something to the effect of "dammed."

nbahet

unknown2 - resolved.

nbahet

unknown3 - I believe this either a genus or common name of some chipmunk, though I can't read it.

Nathani

Unk. 3. I found a 1922 Journal of Mammalogy (vol 3 4) list of subgenera of chipmunks. "amcenus" was one of these groups.

Nathani

I looked at unk 3 again (2 or 3 unk chipmunks" and after checking Global Names Index, I changed it to "amoenus".