LAW BEASON 1969 Journal 5 min E Yungay, 9000 ft., Dept. Lima 21 July and an island in the river (30' net) (N1), and one among willow, pepper trees + Scotch broom by river. (N2) Thrushes were singing in am; 4 large parrots flew by. 9:30am - caught Elaenia in N2. Nets up all day. Sunny + windy all day, wind changing from down to up valley about 2pm. During day saw: Condor (2), sparrow-hawk (2), Cercomacra (1), Apus andecolus (3), sooty bellied swallow (2), Myiophobus fasciatus (1), Myiotheres tuberculifer (1), paroto (4), Batis diex (10), Tundea chiguano (10), Cinclus leucopehelus (1), Columba maculata (2), small hummingbird (1). I set traps in big bushes along road, both sides: 15 small shrews or oatmeal for birds, 7 snares at stations w/ 7 large folding shrews w/oatmeal. Saw a bunch of these Turdeas hopping on a turfey place by river, just like I migratory. Cinclus was a disappointment - hardly bobbed at all, didn't go under water, just jumped from rock to rock, getting his feet wet, eating from algae-covered rocks. 22 July Caught nothing. About 9am got a Patagona gecko in N1. Watched 2 diggers in river in front of camp. They were both blotchy brown, + the white on their heads was sort of grayish. Could they be molting, + that's why they don't go underwater? The deepest one got was in up to his belly. A pair of torrent ducks went by camp too. The 4 graced. They could have beat us down the Rio Corite. We descended + found we hadn't been where we thought we were, that to get to Yungay you have to turn up the mountain at a town called Magdalena.