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LLW815
1963
Journal
July 24 hills again - should be east before Pacific coastal plain - we finally stopped beside road at km. 1114 &c using shed created by local people who work fields around this area. It is [illegible] almost completely overcast + a cloud band is coming in from west.
While talking to some local farmers this evening we learned that Amphilas ruficanda is locally known as tortilla y chile because of habit of shutting & flitting thrun grass & bushes.
July 25 6 mi. sw La Huerte, Jalisco, Mexico km.1114.
up at 0615. While having breakfast heard a finamor calling on hill above camp. Yellow-winged caciques active in tree across road - at least two nests being built. Amphilas ruficanda around camp began singing + fluttering. Spent hour recording vocalizations. Then until 1030 observing both caciques & ruficanda. Had pair of Masked Tityra in large trees around camp. Calling occasionally. Can hear one frog +t several Russet-crowned Motmots calling. Heard a song which is very reminiscent of Amphilus carpalis - ----
When I thred it down was coming from near to ground in dense thickets of second growth - Olive Sparrows. Sinaloa Wrens are common in the thickets + Lateralis Pustulatus or Common