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Junco cinerus. I saw one bird of a flock that were feeding in an open meadow repeatedly jump up on slender weedstalks and bearing these to the ground with its weight feed off the seeds at leisure.

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which do not exceed six in. in diam. and the people are already cutting them for firewood and for making charcoal. The manzanita is here called pinginque and the boys seem to be very fond of the berries. Of the oaks there are several sp. and probably two species or varieties of thornapple one with reddish colored fruit and the other yellow.
Nov. 5-17.
Remain at Sta. Rosa working the mts. for several mi. in all directions. I made two trips to the country about the Ceno de San Miguel which is the