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P. DeBeneeld
1964
Feb 14 Punta Suarez, Espanola (Wood) Island, Galapagos.
object against a rock on the ground. It took about
a minute and a lady to produce an edible luat.
A mole conirostris I watched easily kicked up a
20.5 gm. rock. Many small rocks it picked up with
the bill and threw aside (one such rock weighed
13 1/2 gms). The habit of picking up rocks may perhaps
be something of the origin of tool using. It had
dug a hole 1" deep, 2" in diameter when it tries
at this spot. I saw one juliginosa allways trying to feed
in this manner but it was not too successful and
gave up after about 30 seconds. Took a poor picture
of a "4" conirostris in the act. Also I saw a
mocker with the tail end of a Tropidurus hanging
out of its mouth. I ran over to get the lizard but
the mocker had already swallowed it. I would
guess the lizard was about 5" long. A 8" ?
on a rock near where a mocker was feeding kept
an eye on the mocker, but ??? not bothered and
did not move because of the mocker, which eventuall
moved away. Before dinner Ortiz and I dis-
mantled the net, which had taken nothing else.
I thought the mockers knew what was going on for
they ran under it as soon as I got it off the ground. There
were 2 other pairs in the area of the net in addition
to the birds I took. One birds I was watching, flew,
stopped, called a soft "tir-ruck-tiruck" several
times raising its tail and tail