slopes Mt. Cacaguatque, 4600', Dep't Morgan, El Salvador Dec. 30, 1941. Went with Stirt and Elliott to Stirt's trap-line south and west of camp. While he was resetting traps I shot 2 immature Hedyornis ludovicianus, neither of which I saved. I saw one, and did not know what it was, so shot it to identify it. The charge brought two birds down. Took a ♀ Hylocharis lencotis (987) from a small brush near a grove of oaks. Stirt, Elliott, & I then started for Stirt's Rheomys sets in a stream at the bottom of a canyon to the west. We had gone but a short way when I shot a large woodbewer from the side of a small tree, about 10' from the ground, as it spiralled around the tree-trunk. This was in a sun-lit coffee grove. The bird flew across a small swale and hung upside-down from a limb of another tree, the bird again about 10' from the ground, and keeping silent. It was obviously crippled. I hit it with .410, but it only changed position, moving farther out the limb, but remaining upside down. I then walked over and attempted to shake it out of the tree, without success. Stirt then shot it with .38, and it finally fell. It struggled violently when picked up and used its claws to good effect. It took me at least 8 or 10 minutes to kill it by squeezing it. It turned out to be an adult ♂ Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus, the third specimen from this 26