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LHWolf
1963
Journal
July 19 around + 8 miles down road met a fellow from Oregon who is collecting professionally for University of Kansas Museum - mammals & herps. He reported seeing a jay which sounds like the Dickey Jay . At Rancho Batel - a small tienda on road w/ a house around curve below & up a small road. Fellow lives here who is supposed to be able to collect Dickey Jays fcrus - $ pesos/bird. He says they are about 20 kilometers away & points to NW to a ridge. He said someone hired him in March, 1963 to collect some of the jays.
Very dark to eat so we start supper at 1815. Probably will rain during night.
July 20 9 mi. E. Santa LucĂa, Sinaloa, Mexico El Batel.
Up at 0500. Into field after short breakfast. I walked up to main road to walk generally eastward. Terrain is very hilly (mountainous) & covered with pine, oaks, & cypress. In some barrancas there is a shrub layer which is quite dense - Blue Mockingbird, Turdus assimilis common in here. Dense brush - 2nd growth - in habitat of Melizore leuciris. In open pinetals found Hypoetes Tanager with full grown young; Mexican Junco with growns young & Clipping Sparrows that were feeding young. Encountered a flock of 30+ white-rumped Swifts with some Chestnut-collect Swifts mixed. They were feeding from low over trees to