Lake Plonera Zoo, Dep't. San Miguel, El Salvador Feb. 10, 1942 Dead leaves at the base of one of these trees. This preference for dead leaves as a habitat seems to be the limiting factor in the distribution of geckos around here. Feb. 11, 1942 Went hunting with Marshall in a.m. Took a Ferruginous Pygmy Owl (1216) from a tree near the edge of the trail in the grassland W of camp. It was a single bird, perched about 10' up in the tree, and fully alert. This specimen is unusually red, and is the first & Pygmy Owl we have taken on this trip. In the Mimosa scrub W of camp took a Blacid Flycatcher (1217). It was a single bird, per- ched on a lower limb of a Mimosa shrub, about 4' off the ground. It made no noise, and I thought it an Empidonax when I shot it, the short bill and golden crown patch not being noticeable when the bird was at shooting distance. Also took a Mjar- chus tuberculifer (1218) and two Empidonax flycat- chers in the Mimosa. The Myjar chus has a very distinctive low, plaintive whistle which is a characteristic sound in scrub and often forest around here. They are very common. We followed a concrete trail leading E from the trail which passes through the open wood. This latter trail runs N and S, so that the concrete trail runs toward