Galapagos field notes, v579
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P. DeBare di'cles 1964 2 Feb Punta Espinosa. Femandina I. Fernandina Is., Galapagos. imature Night Herons from dense bushes. They ar almost dark as the adults, finely spotted, and have a very thin head and neck which is quite distinctive compared to Black-c. Night Heron. They were silent and wouldn't fly except to move deeper into the mangrove. Yellow Warblers and Mockers distributed along here as earlier. The S side of the lagoon visited yesterday. Saw the "Camalequenes" but now think it is a fuliginosa. Two "types of song from black? Geospiza. One is chu woi woi with 1 to 3, usu. 3, "woi." syllables in each song. Also heard a high pitched whistle. The brief of this bird is approx. ?G. fuliginosa or folii. Two G's sang a double to triple "cha was" song, much higher pitched than the other song. a little buzzy. Bill thin and pointed. The G I thought was Helioobolis is evidently this form - ?difficilis. Miller is getting birds like this too. Saw a vreselen wing flashing again. The forpolos are lifted from vertical to horizontal, but not out from the body, and the outer primary dropped to the ground. The flash is about 1/4 sec sq song, + usu. 4-6 in a series. Tail fanning seems to be more frequent in tail flip than I thought. Tail normals can ride and flipped to in a smooth up movement, held momentarily and dropped. the widest spread of feathers is at top of the arc. Shot and ad. Mockers but didn't get anything else. Saw no more finches - report in camp. Found lots of mouse