Field notes, v1516
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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.