Field notes, v1506
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Meyer's Field 1973 Journal 157 17 km E. Iturbe Lynd, Dept. Central, Paraguay. We shot 3 birds - a Synallaxis spizi, schoeniophylax plegadis andphila. I put up me of the first, Pete put up the others. Despite the weather & later hour (8:30 PM when we arrived) there was lots of activity. Saw white-eyes & white-necked herons, common egret, rheas, black vultures, great black hawk crested caracara, Jacana, picui ground dove, g.b. avis, guinea cuckoo, veigot kingfisher, refour hornoro, Chloray spenetail chieli spenetail, great antshrike, white-needled marsh-tyrant kestade, vermillion worm-eatcher, vermillion flycatcher's black braved mockerbird tropical motacater, marked motacater, bay-winged anibid, spardlet moole, marked yellowthroat, vermillion red crested guniel, red-crested cardinal. 12 km E. Iturbe Lynd, Dept Cordillera, Paraguay 12 Jul weather cold Temp at 10 AM 13 C. intermittent drizzle. overcast slight's wind. first went to vampiro cave. very few bats, we saw at 50-100 vampyres, about 5 or other, air temp in cave when the bats roost is at 21C... found a 2nd cave, small but deep, nearly. No bats, but a few moscivore flies frugivore droppings. air temp 20 feet in very high, probably at least 25 or 30 C. This cave has no rock entrance, en retrant to