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Carol Pearson
1969
Journal
7 July
2 mi N Casapalca, 14,400 ft, Dept Hima
On The way up De Pimae Valley + while setting traps
we saw Metallura phoebe (common), Leptasthenura, probably
pileata (4 or so in bushes on slope), Lincolodes either fuscus
or atacomensis or both (lots), Zonotrichia capensis (a few
in bushes; a pair of small doves; a pair of hawks
solid gray on top with especially wide wings; a large
hawk with long wings + tail, dark underneath, flapped with
tips of wings.
8 July
My traps at 2 mi. SW Casapalca, 13,300 ft. had one
Phyllotis andinus (#4 CP), caught along a large rock
with both bushes and Stipa nearby. He was still alive after
what was a really cold night for us.
The comps at 2 mi E N. Casapalca, 14,400 ft (near
a train station labelled Chinchon) is in altiplano zone -
all grasses + a few low bushes + a low cactus. A
small river runs down the valley + side streams join it. Rocks
plentiful.
In a couple hours birdwatching in The middle of the day
I saw some thigs I could identify using Koepcke:
Falco femoralis - one lge falcon with buffy heeadstipes, all gray back.
Muscicariola alpina - 10 - slender, upright; run on ground or
sit on rocks; dark gray [illegible] crown + mapes; lighter area
in front of eye, perhaps some dark behind eye; pale
gray underside; gray back; [illegible] gray-brown wings;
dark gray tail with light outer web sometimes seen.
Upucerthia valdivioris - 5 - long, down curved beak;
pale brown, darker above. Thus very fast on ground,
hammers ground with bill.