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Davis
1942
Lake Omege, 20o; Off St. Juan Miguel, El Salvador
Feb. 3, 1942
bank, which was very narrow at this point.
Since I had no one to catch him when I shot
him from the tree, I knew that if he were not
death when he hit the ground, he would es-
cape into the water. Shot him with a full
load of 8's and 3 rounds of .38-12's before
his tail stopped twitching. Shot him from
the tree, + he hit the ground & rolled into about
6" deep water, where I retrieved him. Dur-
ing the night a dog made off with his skin
while I had & left today on a table, so I have
nothing but the skull. On the way back shot
a Guatemala Broad-winged Hawk (1149) from
a tree. This is the commonest hawk here, and
very unsuspicous. Took a Streaked-Headed
Woodhewr (1148) as it worked up the side of a tree
in the dense forest. Shot a small hawk about 15'
up in a tree in the grassland a few hundred yards
of camp, but the bird would not come down. Af-
ter lunch went back with Joe Marshall and Jake
Boer and we finally knocked the bird out of the
tree with rocks. It was a Sharp-shinned Hawk
(Accipiter striatus velox), but the hour or twisit
had been exposed to the sun finished it as a
specimen. Marshall caught a Snake-Counphic
lineatus-(1151) which he gave to me. It was