Davis 941 1942 27 N slope Int Lacagnatique, 4600; left Morgan, El Salvador Dec. 30, 1941. country. The iris was light reddish brown, and the bill bluish horn-color. The ovary was not enlar- ged, and the bird was not fat. The median gony- decal ridge, by which Ridgway separates the genus in his key, was scraped off by the tip of my pliers as I twisted a piece of wire about the bill. Saved partial skeleton. Went to the Rheonys sets, and on the way back Stinton shot a hawk from about 15' up in an oak tree (989). I could not definitely assign it to species. It was exceedingly fat, so I washed it and partially dried it, and left it to air. The excessive amount of fat makes me think it a migrant, possibly a red-tail of some well separated race. Dec. 31-Jan. 2. In bed with great flu. Joe Marshall fi- nished hawk for me. Jan. 3, 1942. Felt somewhat shaky, so fellow-nivalded Pealy and I took a short walk. Bill took a Troglodytes nu- culus from a brush pile in back of the house. The bird acted much like a winter wren, uttering a distinct churring note and keeping well hidden in the brush. When flushed it flew directly to another brush pile a few feet away, and when flushed again flew to still another brush heap. However