Field notes, v1601
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K.Selander, 1952 Camphorhynchus brunnicapillus Sept. 5 17 mi. SE Sombrerete, 1700ft, Zacatecas, Mexico, - Specimen (adult ♀) taken in low widely spaced mosquito, No color in sight. Heard calling "can-can-can-can" Rather mild and wary. Shot with full load 16 gauge, Specimen molting as follows: Left wing; inner primary new, embathed ± 1/2 inch, Next outer new but shorter, embathed; 3rd primary just breaking sheath — ; count of these new - Outer secondary and its covert new, almost fully grown and embathed, -all greater secondary covert new, embathed. Also many lesser coverts of secondaries new - Next to inner most secondary new, well grown, embathed. Inner most just breaking through sheath. Inner most under wing coverts new, Right wing; almost identical. Tail: Central 4 feathers breaking sheaths, the middle two out of sheath about 1/2 inch or less. Upper and under tail coverts embathed sheathed feathers on back, neck and belly. A few feather growing in an old brood-patch,