Field notes, v1471
Page 149
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
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