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Carol Pearson
1965
Journal
25 July Papa Leon Trace / Pomacocha, Yauli Valley, 14,212ft, Dept Junior, Peru
Stopped at Hacienda San Andres + walked up to a Tillandsia sign,
B16, made in 1946 according to Cheerful Charlie. Two dark
blotchy buteos flew over, + there was a dead barn owl in the orchard.
26 July Up The Prince, over the pass (Anticona, 4843m = 15,806ft),
down past Laguna Ducto, where we (Pleuge, Davis, me)
saw Lonchoretta specularoides (2+), Anas flavirostris (30),
Anas georgica (2+), Chloephaga melanoptera (1), Oxynura ferreirae
(5), Ptiloscylus resplendens (2), Larsonia rufa (1 wading in water).
The Anas were puddling on mud bars, the goose was just standing about.
There were good snow-covered peaks around there. Then down through
yellow-grass-covered valleys + more colorful mts to Pomacocha,
Pleuge's Rod + Gun Club. This is on a false lake near Yauli,
14,212 ft., with lots of stipa and rocks.
About 4:30 I set 14 Mus. Specials and 10 West German Raptids
with cheese, through Stipa + rocks.
Some birds we saw: Muscisaxicola alpinia, M. w rusty caps, Cinclodes
fuscus to atacamonis, Ochetorhynchus persimulans, Phrygilus gorgi,
Phrygilus plebejus, Catamania minorata? (all gray w yellow-orange bill)
(white undertail, brownish streaking back, fine streaks on crown, faint eyeline),
Zonotrichia capensis (not singing), Oreotrochilus (landing on ground
+ flying out to catch flies; blue green tail w white tips, blotchy yellowish
back, rusty forehead , rest wings green), Colaptes rupicola,
Asthenes i humilis?, Upucerthia sp., + mystery birds.
27 July Caught 3 Alcodon in Mus. Spec., one very small so I didn't put
it up. Across the lake in a small talus slope we saw a
muscacha, where Ray had shot one yesterday. Also saw
Agriornis montana as well as some things from yesterday.