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De Benedicti
1967
98
11 Feb.
Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos
a number of us went into town to buy chocolate etc,
for the flood trips. They were all out of chocolate,
had a candy bar which was not a good quality
as the Superior 16b. bars they sell (5:30 sunset).
In the Ecuadorian part of town there were 4-6 hour
falconera flying very close like - the impression
heightened by their dark color and the portlight.
over the back yards of the houses, scavenging small
bits of food from the chicken coops, etc. They were
silent and showed no aggression though did
seemed to be adults. The feeling flight was some-
what like Ring-bills following a plow, short rise of
20-25 feet and circular, descending glides of 60
to 75 or 100 feet. The tail appears rounded in this
flight pattern and the pale rump is conspicuous.
A little earlier in the afternoon saw a family
group of Yellow Warblers. The young are greenish above
and white to gray (on the throat and breast) below, with
fairly distinct yellowish wing bars, somewhat reminis-
cent of a dirty D. pensylvanica and completely unlike
the American Juveniles. In this evening Bob.
Pyle came back down from the highlands with nearly
all the rest of the Pterodroma skeleton; added little
to what he had said before. The humors are about
4'6