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morning we resumed our journey and making a short stop at Eureka, a thriving 

 business city on Humboldt Bay (Humboldt County) we began field work again at 

 Alton Junction some 20 odd miles south of Eureka, on October 23. We trapped 

 here till the 26th. This town is on a narrow plain thru which flows a narrow stream 

 of clear water. Imposing cliffs and heavily timbered ridges arise in the vicinity. 

 Tho well settled up here the wild nature of the country is still present. Deer 

 tracks were often seen but one-half mile from town. Gaut caught a fine gray fox 

 near these tracks. 



Unexpectedly hearing of a promising trapping locality upon the high Rainbow 

 ridges to the south, Gaut and I made a hurried departure for this spot on October 

 26. We passed thru a prosperous farming country, with scattered patches of 

 coniferous and deciduous timber similar to that previously described for this humid 

 area until we reached the prettily situated and thrifty town of Rio Dell. From 

 there we entered the redwoods and climbed steadily upward till we reached a series 

 of bald ridges with their slopes heavily timbered with firs, spruces and fine groves 

 of tan-bark oak. About the middle of the afternoon we reached Crawford's Ranch, 

 and getting directions for our further journey, started down into the deep, heavily- 

 timbered canyon of Bear River. Here we had to block the wheels of our light, 

 one-horse trap every few rods, so steep was the declivity. The ascent up the oppo- 

 site side was scarcely less difficult and about sundown we reached McDonough's 

 Ranch. Here our anticipations of a warm supper and a good bed were rudely 

 shattered, as the place was temporarily deserted, and a few bites of oat-meal, raisins 

 (trap bait) and jerked venison were all we had before going to bed in the hay loft. 

 Next morning we gained Henley's Ranch, our destination, after traversing huge 

 rounded ridges, grass-covered and treeless. The adjoining canyons, however, were 

 of just the opposite character, steep and heavily timbered. Here we got wild cats, 

 gray foxes, and a good series of spotted skunks {Spilogale) . Our stay in this 

 charming, isolated spot lasted till November 1, and returning to Alton Junction, 

 the writer's field work terminated. Gaut continued the survey work considerably 

 further down the coast. 



^chmophorus occidentalis. Western Grebe. Crescent City in the ocean; at 

 Requa, mouth of the Klamath River. 



Podilymbus podiceps. Pied-billed Grebe. Crescent City, Requa, Orick. 



Larus delawarensis. Ring-billed Gull. The gulls observed by the writer were 

 mostly unidentified and but one specimen of the Ring-billed Gull was taken. Gulls 

 and terns were common about Klamath lyake, Crescent City and Eureka. A common 

 tern about Klamath Eake was undoubtedly Sterna forsteri, and on the flat shores of 

 this lake were immense droves of large gulls in company with large flocks of Cana- 

 da Geese. A unique sight at Crescent City was large numbers of gulls feeding 

 upon the carcass of a dead whale. 



Phalacrocorax dilophus albociliatus. Farallone Cormorant. Common at Bes- 

 wick and at Marshalls. Cormorants were common at Requa and presumably this 

 species was largely represented among them. 



Phalacrocorax pelagicus resplendens. Baird Cormorant. One taken at Crescent 

 City. (Identification by Biological Survey). 



Pelecanus calif ornicus. California Brown Pelican. Common at Marshalls and 

 Crescent City. 



Anas boschas. Mallard. These birds are reported as breeding sparingly at 

 Beswick. They were common in the sloughs and ponds about Eower Klamath Dake. 



Mareca americana. American Widgeon. Very common along the coast from 

 Crescent City southward during October. Widgeons usually formed the largest 



