Field notes, v1521
Page 263
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
other shrubs. The Tillandsia on the south side in sand under me troffed last year (no mind) looks sort of sparse from a distance, not as lush as I had remembered. Walked up to it in PM. mono-trobe, burhelm-trobe, a huge bird-trails 1/2" and 3/4" apart 7". large brood-bowls located on rocks in tillanders. and quite saw a sparrow-bawk These Tillandsia are smaller than at km 80 1/2, and many more died over (terminal part dead, not just stem). Some old ones with 18" of dead stems have tiny little plant at end. Very few with pink flowering stalks. Small small shells mixed in sand at various places. Temp: 5:30 = 14°, 7:30 14° Saw no insects in afternoon. Not many silverfish or big spiders. Saw big black muntl with his brood-cist dep in a tillander's center-roll. Numerous moths, a few big slow-moving flies, no ants here or at km 80 1/2 (they are ants in the gulley but not off on the slope. Saw burrowing owl; 4 of its pellets were all insect parts, no mouse fur. Socked for geckoes after dark but saw none. Moths flying, big cricket out on bare jebso knoll, no spiders seen, one mosquito. Temp: 14° 5 1/2 km. NE San Bartolo, Dept. of Luna July 20 Temp: at 7:30 13°, foggy. Anita heard bat last night. Collected insects on the Tillandsia slope (sandy) on south side of valley. Just below area under rocks a large scorpion & large cricket. A new bird of green parrot in willow-shelter in center of eastern Tillanders. Tallest Tillander