Field notes, v1471
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Marshall, 1942 El Salvador Jan 2 Int. Cacaguatigue, Dept Morazan all forenoon, Streptoprogne were milling around high in the air - flock scattered & broken up most of time, but sometimes several hundred birds in view at once. PM. - just at dusk - shot one of 3 tanagers from top dead tree in hacienda 16638 yard - was Thrupis afflas. Birds looked like finches, moving body up & down, giving light "chips". 16640 After dark heard Glauidium brasilianum calling from high, dense foliage of finca shade tree near camp. Kept calling while I tried for 1/2 hr. to shine it; went back after 3/4 hr. when called again from same tree - this time I got it to follow me & it perched in lower tree where coll. It had carried a warbler (Vermivora perigrina?) to this tree & still clutched the body when fell. Head & wings = is stomach. Call a continual whistled guint, guint with slight upward inflection. 15 calls/10 seconds steadily for several min. at a time. Then would start again when I would whistle. Quality at 1st rough, then would become clear whistle. Jan 3 A.M. Cloudy, calm - at daybreak, walked down