V.M. Dycados 1978 El Juli, 230 m., 19.5 km. NNE Encarnacion by road Dpto. Itapua, Paraguay. September two birds, but all the others who were singing were either inaccessible or and/or singing only 15-20 songs in their longest series of songs. I returned to the hotel at 12:45. At 14:30 I left the hotel for the airstrip. I wanted to record a series of Zonotrichia capensis and had decided that the road to Becker's forest had the most birds. Unfortunately, the road to Becker's forest also had many motorcycles, cars, trucks, horse carts, etc. and it was very difficult to get a recording of a series of songs without having vehicle noise destroy some of also the cues. The wind was a problem at times, plus many of the birds weren't singing in extended series. I finally got frustrated at the vehicle noise and after walking down the road to about 1/2 mile past pasture #1, I came back to Becker's forest, walked through it, and went into pasture #2. From there I walked through the tung orchard, and then crossed the fence back to the