Lake Omega, 200', Dept. T. Santiago, El Salvador Feb. 4, 1942 men along the lake shore, and the latter all over the lake. Jacanas are quite gregarious, and I have seen as many as 14 feeding in the same patch of hyacinth. The grebes are found alone, in pairs, or threes. Jacanas have a sharp, twittering alarm note given as they take wing. Shot a blue-winged teal (1163) about 250 yds. off shore. It was a solitary bird. After the boy had paddled me to shore, I noticed three grebes foraging about 10 yds. off shore. Took one (1160). The other two showed no alarm at the shot and did not even dive, but kept on paddling along the edge of the guimava scrub. On the way back to camp took a cinnamon hummingbird as it perched in a tree. The native boy brought in an Aulie (1164) and Stinton brought in a Sumbadora (1165), the same gray colubrid that was taken at Monte Cristo and Mt. Caraguatiqua. This snake was very active, and bit me twice when I put the chloroform into the killing jar. Feb. 5, 1942. Spent the day around camp taking it easy. Native boy brought in several Aulie. Took a walk along the trail E of camp, and caught a