Carl Pearson 1969 Journal Papa Leon Tree 11 July every legume type tree, + a few bushes. It was a day of high, light fog, so I could see the ocean + lots of hills, + it was warm. I saw no signs of mammals except small diggings, skunk-like, at some bulbs. I found a dead + a live tarantula-like spider living in [crossed out: crosses] holes or burrows. Also a small (1 1/2 ft) snake, slender, brownish black with 2 dull yellow stripes. Up on the rocky cliffs was a Geositta with rufus in its wings; it fluttered its wings while making its loud, chattering noise. It also makes a strange "wa, wa" call. In a tree clump at the very top of the ridge were a pair of Zonotrichia capensis and a pair of Troglodytes aedon, with the [illegible] wren singing just like at home. There was another wren singing in the next valley over the ridge. The wren seemed much trufly [crossed out: darker] tender on the abdomen than I remember wrens in VST being. Also saw a Condor and a slew of blue + white swallows and the other Geositta probably maritima, and 2 burrowing owls. Late afternoon we spent on the study plot again. We to saw a lizard, probably like the one I caught this morning off the plot on a hill with bluish rocks. That one this morning lost into a Tillandsia when I came along. I started mopping the piles of bird droppings, each dropping a coil or squiggle of greenish thread about 1/8" thick. The whole droppings about 3/4 - 3/4 " wide, sometimes with white on top. They occur in piles of maybe 10 or more. AKR [crossed out: ?] OPP, and I