Field notes, v1602
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R.K. Selander, 1953 H. chiapensis 6 SE side Tonalá, 180 ft., Uriabos, México Oct. 25 ✓ Specimen 1656: Inner two primaries old, others new. Two of the median secondaries embeathed a little at base. Tail looks juvenile - some feathers embathed. Iris brown darker than 1655, not so red as 1654. ✓ Specimen 1657: Iris full red-brown as in iris dull brown. ✓ Specimen 1658 - Iris full red-brown. ✓ Skull of 1655: = "partial ossification" ✓ Skull of 1656 - about the same as 1655. = dull pale brown. ✓ Skull of 1657 without ossification - except for a few pillars. At about 6:30 this morning we collected a barn of this species in a situation very similar to that in which I have taken the other specimens during the last two days. A thicket of densely leafed small tree-bushes, some covered with Convolvulus which is in full bloom. Again bull-horn acacia was present and the situation was more humid than much of the surrounding area - a wide fence row of lush-trees bordering the road and not too distant from houses and the river. Again noted Petunia purpurea and the tecard - these seem to be "indicator species" for H. chiapensis Dalit - have invariably found the three together in same vegetation.