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1942
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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