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P. PEARSON
1952
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March 9 Temp at 6 26°. Ice in bus. Hunted turacos north and watched in afternoon. Day almost all clear, no precipitation.
March 10 Frost, temp at 6:15 34°. Day almost all clear, no precip. Watched turacos up at waterfall. Saw hummer by cliffs there. Put out about > 5 ms along part of cliff, then in thick grass clumps up along waterl canyon, then over sparser hilltops to unwatching blend.
March 11 Traps held 6 bluecups and 4 abdon solimanius; then 1 bluecup later in day. Rain from mid-afternoon until evening. Watched turacos and hunted.
March 12 Cloudy nearly morning but cleared about 10. Traps held 2 bluecups, 1 Mistungy, 1 Ph. siddimnia. Watched turacos. Kafonda came for half afternoon and stayed overnight morning.
March 13 Cloudy in morning (but frost), clear in afternoon. No rain. Turaco hunting in morning with Carl. One ph-picture in trees. Shot an ash-breasted finch for Carl. Other common birds here are Cinclocos, Threecorn, Zivotrichi, Soolin; other less common are a hummer, a gray-beaked yellow-belted finch with grey wings, Vpantia, astherus, parrot, carocaro, precher. No rain. Several passer-by call this locality "Toroya".
March 14 Same old trap line had 1 2/3-grain bluecup, 1 1/2-grain chickathirer, and 1 Mistungy. Several of the other bluecups on this line have been sub-adults. Picked up these traps. Watched for turacos on flats. Put out another line of 20 traps in grass-groodongrove, and 7 along base of cave-cliff. Watched at rest in afternoon. Day almost all sunny, no rain. Evening clear, 42° at 7:15.