Carol Pearson 1969 Journal Papa León Tasse 5 July Phleocryptes melanops - 4 + - acting like a marsh wren in the reeds. White line above eye; not too long beak; something rufous about back parts; buffy outer tail feathers? Hummingbird catching insects on or close over water, even got his tail wet & flew away. 6 July Before breakfast went to beach near Puerto Viejo. In the fields of Distichlis? (a grass) were Pajites militaris doing flight songs and a flock of Sporophila, at least some S. telesco. Some of these small finch-like things were plain dusty below, + on one there was white in the tail. Something was hiding down in the grass while it sang. After breakfast we dashed up to Quebrada Cruz de Hueso to find a mislaid box of traps. Seeing the small holes there reminded me I had seen a wasp digging a hole in the sand at the beach. In late afternoon we went to the beach again with John Davis and Manuel Pienze. I showed them the 4 Burhinus, + they shot one. There were tracks of them all over the sandy parts, not going into the grassy parts, + no holes where they'd stuck their beaks in. (We also saw a few Burhinus tracks along the road from the autopista into San Bartolo.) Today the birds were together and wary, running off while we were a couple hundred yards away at least. We saw a pipet doing flight song. Found 3 eggs on beach in a "nest" - pointed, 1 1/2" long,