Field notes, v585
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Davis 1942. 29 N slope Mt. Lacaguatique, 4600', Dep't Morazan, El Salvador Jan. 4, 1942. accent of a clock being wound, but has a faintly frog-like quality. Took 2 Band-tail Lizards (997-998) from about 12' in a scrub oak in a fairly bushy oak grove. They were sitting mo- tionless & silent. On skinning, found their crops full of black berries and steminate catkins, perhaps oak flowers. Shot a Sceloporus variabilis (999) from the top of a pile of oak faggots, and a Sceloporus malachiticus (1000) from the top of a large oak log on the ground, all in the same general area. In the afternoon Gealy brought me a ♀ Sceloporus malachiticus (♂-??? 1001) which seemed gravid, with distended belly. Also a Sceloporus variabilis (1002) and an Anolis undulata (1003). These three lizards he collected from fallen logs in the coffee grove behind the Ranch-house. Jan. 5, 1942. Went hunting in a.m. Took a Setophaga fusca (1004) from 30' up in an oak as it foraged actively. Further along ran across a flock of Green Jays perched in the coffee bushes by the roadside. They utter a very distinctive, coarse hooting noise, pitched very low. One flew up about 15' to the top of a shade tree, and I shot it. The bird then rolled down a very precipitous bank to a dry creek bed