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Marshall, 1942
General list
Jan. 11. Mt. Cacaguatigue, Dept. Morazan, El Salvador
woodpeckers in brush & low trees
(when evidently once cleared) were
2 kind? wrens, orioles, bunmbers saltators,
& several singing Cyclarhis
flaviventris . In cornfield
2 Lincoln sparrows (many weeds
& vines)
January 12 Early am. Hunted on south ridge of
one of the high peaks of Mt. Cacaguatigue
in virgin dense oak woods on very
steep slope where Hildebrand had seen
tree quail? Only birds seen were
a Tityra and some warblers and
a Xiphorhynchus . Near the top of the
ridge is the boundary between finca
& oaks where some large dead
trees with Balanophora common (about
8) also in adjacent finca & in company
with Piculus & Centurus . Near the
big dead tree was big flock warblers,
tanagers, r-b. Thrushes & blue-headed
vireo. On top of this peak was
brush with todnie warblers &
wrens. The next peak & ridge to
the west is higher with more humid
type of brushy cover: vines & ferns
& high bushes where saw one Atlapetes
& heard several more. Went down