Field notes, v585
Page 285
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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