Field notes, v1602
Page 547
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Tzitzio June 6 species with uniform brownish or grayish color & a truncated tail which was often partially fanned. The Poryptilas were easily recognizable by their dark coloration, large size, and by the fact that they apparently have almost no tail in flight. The call is somewhat similar to that of Chordeiles minor but is less nasal. In flight they look superficially like a small night hawk. Took several photos of the specimen. Several swallow-tailed swifts were flying in same area with the swifts. June 7 Hunted 1 1/2 hours around camp & collected 2 more gularis - one a full-grown juvenile. The juvenile was in company with other birds. Again I found these were in the larger trees - oaks or thorn bushes or trees, (Spec. labeled 1 mi. NW Tzitzio). In the late morning we drove down to 1 mi. NW of Tzitzio where I hunted along a thickly wooded (thorn-trees) gully without luck. As we were returning to our old camp site I saw a vixen cross the road & fly up through a pasture to broad oak- about 75 yd flight in air. As I approached the bird moved twice to other oaks. There I found three birds (incl. the one I was chasing), two of which I collected. One flew to a low-thick thorn bush where it remained concealed for several moments before I managed to collect it. Another flew a long distance away over open grass-woodland to a distant clump.