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DeBenedictis
1964
23 Sun Ascension Bay, Santa Cruz Is. Galapagos.
a wing out + fluttered, tail up display like the
others. Very common as one goes higher. Saw 2-3
yellow warbler nests, wander to her high as I went
c. 2-3 miles from the Horneman farm area.
where we turned around it was very lush, with
flowers and berries; Geospiza feeding on seeds and
on low berries on the ground, often in flocks of 20-50.
Took 2 pictures of flycatchers and 3-4 landscape
from mid transition zone to mid dry zone.
on the way down. camera says on shot #37
now. Much geospizine nest building. Nests easy
to find. Insects very common in upper zone.
Saw Phoebe, a blue (hycaenid), & Quercus sp.,
and 2 skippers, one? Urbanus galapagoensis.
G. scandens was very scarce near where we
turned back, as was Tropiculenus. Saw a Phyllodactyls
in a dead log which Bob Pyle picked up at c. 150'.
Got back about noon. Saw a large pelizinoe at the
beach. Spent the rest of the afternoon packing for the
pt. Espinoza trip. about 5:30 saw about 8 culindrub,
a black-tailed flower and a large shorebird flew over.
Hot. The marine biologists have been collecting like
mad. Several large sp. of brittle star and 3+ sea
urchins, the with long sharp spines.
In the evening autorozo to be you collecting. took
a large green spingid moth, lots of flies and
beetles. Went to bed about 10.