Field notes, v1471
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Marshall, 1941 8. General Account mt Cacaguatigue, Dept Morazan, El Salvador Dec 28 P.M. - night - hunted with stuit. At dusk got 2 Otus trichopsis in same spot in finca, later Cicada virgata began to call- couldn't get to them. Moonlit night. Dec 29 Hunted in finca. P.M. Hunted Cicada at top of ridge Dec 30 am worked in oaks to the east - many tanagers, warblers & Ceophloens? Setophaga pieta, rb thrushes, etc. Worked down the pine ridge (running n-e) which is very dry & grass growing under the pines. Further down, there is dense brush of composites under the pines & out on a steep, hot, east-facing knoll - much grass & brushes also - here over was a group of Spinus psaltria. Warblers in pines same as in oaks but some different sp.: One singing, & a hermit w. coll. Dec 31 am. hunted down ridge to north - here flat wide for about 1/2 mi & huge oaks thinned out preparatory to planting coffee - but less brush now. Several dead snags. Makes an entirely different habitat - great trees