Galapagos field notes, v579
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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