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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Marshall (1942)
Muscivora forficata
Lake Olomega - Probably 1000 individuals, very loosely flocking, ranged throughout the open scrubby woods at the boundary between the grassland and dryfoothill forests at the SW corner of the lake. This particular area was overrun with larks at the time.
San Salvador February? Each evenings, birds would come w over the hotel and perch everywhere on wires - apparently bedding down.
April? Thousands upon thousands present each evening flying generally westward toward center of town perching row after row on all available wires. There were several large dense trees in the square below the hotel and hundreds of the birds were attempting to alight in them. Each one fluttering in would fight one already there because every available twig was taken. This