Field notes, v585
Page 275
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Jan 1942 56 Lake Omeo, Zoo; Dept. San Miguel, El Salvador Jan. 30, 1942. Showered me a Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus) (1123) about 30' up in a tree in front of the hacienda. I shot it. Spent the rest of the a.m. Fleshing the crocodile skin and roughing out the skeleton. Stir- ton brought me an Aroli, and the ma- tic boy caught a brown-headed lyre. Skinned birds in p.m. Hunted along the trail running east of camp after 5 o'clock, but saw nothing. Heard several owls. After lunch, a native came in with the other crocodile I requested yesterday. The one I skinned yesterday (1115) had a blue-winged heron in its stomach; numerous body feathers, the articulated wings & feet, & the skull. Jan. 31, 1942. Hunted in a.m. Took a Sharp Reedcater (1128) in the grassland '1/2 mi. w of camp; a Painted Bunting in the Mimosa scrub ('1/4 mi. w of camp) (1127); a Guatemalan Emerald (1125) from about 15' up in a tree in the open woods west north of camp; and a Black-headed Trogon (1126) from 20' up in a tree near the Emerald locality. On the way back took a Granidoforous (1130) as it crawled through a cornfield, and an Aroli (1131) from a fence-post at edge of same. Before the