Carl Pearson 169 Journal Quito, Ecuador June cont. shrubby cover with lots of orchid family and lots of Phips blooming. The floor of the crate was covered with cornfields. Standing at the rim we saw some hummers; a tonager with blue back, red on wings + face; a grosbeak with yellow breast; a dark slaty thrush with bright orange-yellow beak + yellow? around eye + yellow legs; 3 turkey vultures; a Butao; martens; all dark flowers piercers. Hacienda La Pampa in Pomasqui After the crate we drove to Hacienda La Pampa, a supposedly operating vegetable or fruit farm that has old plants of all sorts, from brussel sprouts to spiny lemon or grapefruit trees. There this belonged to a friend of Fernando's, Esteban Serrano, who agreed to have us for the night so we could trap. There we tried a strange fruit also called chirivoya X that looks like nothing else except maybe a swollen, deformed cone of a juniper?, but has its yellow pulp around large black, flat seeds taste like pineapple. These grew on trees in the gardens behind the house, which is an incredible delapidated old stucco + wood job with ceilings about 12' high or more and smelling of bats or mice. The garden attracts hummingbirds, + Fernando sees at least 3 kinds there. We saw blue-eared, and also spinus, and some small stupery + crested flycatcher.