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Marshall 1944
8.
General Acct
May 12 Jamestown Ozark Co. Mo.
Clapping sounds and a rapid
series of the hoarse grunts.
Sounded like a bear crashing
Thru the trees. Call resembles
that of Whip-poor-will grunt
corresponds to “group” of poorwill,
Several seconds separate each
song. The birds are abundant
and closely spaced.
May 13 Elsie & I went out to
Leopold’s Cabin at Caney But.
refuge, the area Leopold bought
up for Turkey refuge for Mo.
Corn. Corn. Met Leopold &
wife Betty & son, Fritz. Sat
on porch of cabin on N. slope
on 50’ cliff over stream
looking across broad stream valley
to wooded slope on other side,
all the warblers & vireos in
the country seemed to be drifting
past the porch – following the edge
of the bank in foraging: Black &
White, Black-Poll, Phelocalated etc.
Hiked up stream & up to bald
(exposure of limestone on S-facing
ridges with sparse bunch grass