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June 9
1 Km. W Puerto Garnica, ft., Michoacán
Hunted 2 hours early in morning (before 9), taking
12 specimens of C. megalopterus, including several injured plumage. 2 groups represented + 2 other odd linels.
Rain in afternoon. I shot all linels a short distance
from camp - 6 from one group belonged to a group
of 8 or so found just across the highway from our
camp. The wrens are fairly evenly distributed thugh
the area with probably 1 group to every block or
two of area. - Down the logging road from camp
many of the larger trees have been cut and in the open
areas where shrubs & large lumses are common I did
not find wrens. Most of the region has been lumbered
but good thick stands remain despite removal of some
of the trees. Probably pine is commonest tree with
fir & an unidentified giant tree being about
equally common and almost as common or the pine.
Most of the trees are giants. There are some young firs
and pines growing in some areas which have been
cut over. Mangatin on some drier slopes.
(This forest corresponds to the cloud forest of Blake and
Hanson described on Mt. Tancitaro, Michoacan.)
July 10 Hunting from 8:30 - 12:30. Noted linels were mostly
feeding silently, although once in a while a group would
burst into chatter - but this was not sustained. I had
to locate linels by hearing soft che-che notes which
seem to be foraging call. Of dut wheel or sometimes
when I saw no source of disturbance the che-che