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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