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P. PEARSON
1951-1952
mothafrocta (cont.)
from above. Finalized on pgs 2 mothafrocta also about
50 yards away at the same time & Remated (and watched) rest
for rest of day and at 5:30 p.m., but no other birds seen
nearby. About 10 a.m. a lone bird was feeding & preening
about 40 yds. away. Wounded it but it escaped. Then looked
for nest and found that indrain had removed eggs as well
as our stone marker!!
Feb.23 Hunting with Koforide to Arequipa-Puno km 100. Collected one
? and ? (egg in clutch) among features and some ichu (13,800ft.)
and heard Trunnos about 100 ft. higher on a facing hill
that was rockier.
Feb.25 82 km. W. Puno, 14,000ft. Heard the robin-like chirp near bus
at 7 a.m. and saw pair of perdis across stream from bus feeding
into wet green flat. Watched for hour or more. As before one of the
pair was slightly larger, more of crest on head, grayer less brown,
and seemed to follow the other one around. Will call this
large one the ?. While watching the ? of this pair he started to
run and I saw that he was chasing another trunnos. After
about 10-15 yards of very rapid pursuit during which our ? was
only a foot or two behind the other bird took off with screeder
and flew away. Our ? rejoined the ?. Later we noticed that
there were 2 ?? present, as well as the ?, all within
requiring distances of each other, but no fights. The
? soon wandered uphill 100 yards and sat and preened for
15 minutes or more. The other 2 birds then wandered up
the hill for about 200 yards, then also stopped & preened.
About 3:30 in afternoon a pair were again on the flats
near the bus- mostly walking in the grass, not much