Carol Penn 1969 Journal 15 July with white heads, as others seen so far, one with dark head + grayish breast), L dominicanus (1), Sula (50), snowy plover (5), killdeer (heard one), Vultur (1). Ducks on small pond: slender neck, white check+ fronty Throat, black? top of head + back of neck, dark under tail, tail lights, slightly from above in flight. Anas versicolor or bahamensis Night - returned to study area, walked around lake side but saw nada. hunted spiders + geckos on plot, found some + one respectively. Heard bats + crickets. A large orb-weaver on his web. 16 July Drove up to havana Pachacamac to pick up Jorge Reyes and his friend Andres Mendoza, who guided us up a valley south of Lurin (going just satellite tracking station) to location 20 km E Lurin, 1000 ft. This is a very rocky + steep-sided canyon, this year fairly lushy with lilies + other herbs so that people with cattle, sheep, & goats + accompanying dogs had moved in. So no vizaachas, which had been promised, of course. Flocks of Sicalis started exploded + zoomed along the valley with loud chattering + settled on the cliffs, like insects or bats. Ones I saw were plainish brown, some with yellow wash in front. Maybe 500 of them. A hummingbird whizzed by. Geositta maritima spread evenly all over. Pair Troglodytes musculus. 20 utulbia copensis singing, a few in valley, a couple up side canyons, dif song than at Populoon. Cathartes aura - one The valley got dry + barren again as we went further; the fog got stuck on cooler more western peaks.