Field notes, v1516
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Lord Pearson 1569 Journal Poya Leon 3 July Heard a few crickets. We drove south at night 8pm-ish to the tillandsial so. of Chilea + Thereabouts, looking for the mice along the road. We saw one by luck, a Phyllotis. Also we saw spiders by their eyeshine on the Tillandia area + heard crickets there. Around the house in the late afternoon: Amazilia amazilia - all rufous tail, back, belly; greenish head, blue throat on one. Several on fig trees, but Pyrocephalus rubinus was chasing them. This v-flye. had bright red top of head and spot in middle f breast; breast otherwise pale pink. Also shook lots of Eupelia coryza out f the trees. Lots f Z. copensis singing. 4 July Up to 10 km ENE Pucensona to check traps first thing. I picked up some burrowing out pellets from the a more-used burrow of the pair there. There were lots f scorpion type of <tules> on the rock by the burrows. The burrow was irregular, excavated for among the rocks, + lichen growing over most of the dirt at front, so it didn't look very used, although I think its this pair's main burrow. There was no garbage lying around, just some pellets with mostly insect parts + some small bones. One of the owls had a fairly dark head, while the other's head was light with "eye-light" eyebrows. Rest f morning went to 5 1/2 km NE San Bartolo (Quebrada de Guy de Hueso). Nothing was in my traps. There were fresh Burhinus? tracks (weren't there yesterday).