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  • 71 Mount Arrowsmith V.I. [Vancouver Island] Sept. [September] 9-11 + 20-22. 1938. I McTC. [Ian McTaggart Cowan] During the first trip up we worked the entire east + north facing slopes of the mountain Blue grouse, golden crowned + savannah sparrows, pipits + hermit thrush were abundant. Saw 2 Leucosticte + wounded one without being able to recover it. Red-b. [Red-breasted] nuthatch, kinglets, chickadees + winter wrens went as high as the last tree clumps. One Fox sparrow was seen but not collected. On the cliffs of the main peak we located a covey of six ad. [adult] [male symbol] white-tailed ptarmigans + collected 5 of them. Later in the day we found + collected a [female symbol] + 5 young that were feeding in the Abies at the foot of the cliff. Chief food at this time of year seems to be Crow berries. Band-tailed pigeons + Audubon warblers seen in migration also a sharp shinned hawk + one Turkey vulture. Mice were extremely scarce one Pery. [Peromyscus] being the
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