Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
N.Slope Mt. Lacaguatique, 4600', Dept. Morazan, El Salvador
Jan. 12, 1942.
Took a long walk in a.m. looking for new birds,
particularly Fringillids. Went up to the saddle n.
of camp, then along the ridge at the top of the
north slope through the oaks. There were not many
birds in evidence. Turned off the ridge and
went down the south slope to about 3400'. The
trail is rather steep and zig-zags through brush
and grass. About the only birds heard were Tro-
glodytes musculus. At about 3400' the trail leads
out onto a grassy flat with interspersed patches
of scrub. Saw lilacated warblers, but not much
else. This flat is really the top of a small ridge,
and the trail leads over the ridge, through oaks
and scrub. Saw and shot an Rhinophila as it
foraged actively in the scrub, but could not find
it. The trail then doubles back to the north, going
down the side of the ridge into coffee land, and
finally leading to a small stream between the
ridge and the steep, grassy south slope, altitude
here about 3000'. Took a SALTATOR strieps (1040)
and a Vermivora (Peregrina?) (1041) from coffee
shade trees. The Saltator was one of a flock of 6 or 7,
and was uttering a harsh, short chak-chak
when I shot it. The Vermivora was foraging actively
in company with black-throated green warblers.
Went east a ways until the south slope tailed off