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1/2 mi. SW road along Rio Agua Dulce - Study Area # 2
April 11 The vegetation adjacent to the river at the study area is
a coarse grass savannah dotted with small
deciduous trees mostly small and with short trunks
and many branches leaning the trunk lowdown, some
of these tree have leaves; the majority do not. I imagine
that this vegetation type is similar to the low deciduous
forest which occurs uniformly on the foothills, including
the hill which comes down to the river in the spot
where the riparian vegetation narrows so much. Wrens
seem to be restricted to stream side vegetation,
I hiked up from the carts the area where I found
chickensis and nigricaudalis humbles on April 7 (see
pencil diagram). The stream divides in the area
just adjacent to the hill. From the hill to the stream
is about 200 yds. There is a growth of big anotes
and guanocartes with a shrubby understory along
both streams with the deciduous trees wider,
spaced on both sides of the streams. There is a dry
stream bed immediately adjacent to the hill covered
with the low deciduous forest - a thick growth with
no wrens inhabiting it. At the point of the hill the
riparian vegetation narrows to 75 feet, widens a
bit in the study area - then there is a long area
where the riparian
vegetation appears to have been cleared
from the stream. Noted one nigricaudalis bird in
a rather dry spot near the point of the hill. Just
below stream from the narrow point I found a