Welcome to Natural History Stories - a podcast of classic writings on natural history and nature observation. Our second book is the Mary Austin collection, "The Land of Little Rain", published in 1903. 

This episode contains the chapters, The Land of Little Rain, Water Trails of the Ceriso, and The Scavengers. 

In these writings, there are outdated or regional common names used for birds. In this episode you will hear a bird described as Crested Quail. Today we recognize this bird as California Quail. The bird herein described as Clark’s Crow, is now commonly called Clark’s Nutcracker.