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Streverwies pomavines
25 May cont
fluid. One bird, for instance,
[illegible] wing-flashing
behavior to two different individuals within a few minutes.
I shot one bird today
for Maher.
7 May
Pitmegea - two very tame individuals
were seen back of camp and near
the coast. They were sitting about
160 yds. apart and both allowed
me to approach with 25 yds before
they fled, and then they spread
out a little way before
settling down again.
8 May
Pitmegea - in the evening I threw
out some bird viscera and a now
bunch 20 yds from me. I had intended
the meat for the pair of long-tails
that had settled around new tent.
They came down to it immediately,
but no sooner had they begun to
pull at the meat, then HNT pomavine
flew over and mobbed them. The
longtails flew up screaming and
made dives at the pomavines, which
paid no attention to the longtails.
One of the pomavines came in and