Field notes, v1516
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Carol Pearson 1569 Journal 3 July Papa Leon Tree look like excavation, but there was some soft, fuzzy material at the mouth. The mouth was just the wide area under the overhang of the rock, + the burrow went back from this. The bird itself was pretty darn plain, breast light grayish with maybe a central speckle, back darker + brownish, sides pinkish or pale rusty. I'll need a better look. No white in wings or tail when it flew, but perhaps lighter outer tail feathers. Perhaps Geositta maritima. A quite large hawk flew over watching me and then landed on a sandy hill for awhile. All dark above, chest + beginning of belly light tan with some speckles. Molting some primaries. I don't think it has the shape of beranoactus. While it was on the ground, standing, it looked huge too, + showed whitish above the shoulder, bird facing around the front of his neck. In the afternoon 2-3:30 we went further up the valley behind Papa Leon to a place 10 km. east NE Pucusana, 250 m. Here is more rocky, steep hills, all lichen covered, more lilies + other plants but not cactus. At the a burrow of 2 owls were 4 pellets, 2 entirely of black beetle parts, 1 for 2 with a couple scorpions and parts of 2 mice. The burrow was shallow + only about a foot deep in the soil and didn't look very used. There was lichen growing all around it, as elsewhere, + a rock in the mouth of the burrow. Here I saw a pair of perhaps miners - they'd fly from one slope to another. Also heard a strange w-wwr! w-wurr!