P. DeBenedictis 1964 130 Feb 16 Punta Suarez, Isla Espanola (Hood), Galapagos grayish black with yellow foot pads. Skinning day old pussines is a horrible job not to be recommended for anyone. Hope they will hold. After I finished I went out and took a # of pictures of Blue footed Boobin, Swallow tailed Gulls, Tropicbirds, weavers and G. corvostis. The Tropicbirds were zooming around the cleft in five positions, much V gliding and turn curling" and going into (or trying) in cliff at many pts. Saw one Creagrus threaten another in a silent oblique posture like that from which they usually call. Spent a long time trying to photograph one in flight, don't know how successful I'll be at it. Went down towards the "hawk outcrop" along this cliff, where there were even more Tropic birds than where I usually looks. Caprutes saw a group of about 50 together at once and I got cup to 17 at once. After spending some time at this I came back through the brush finding a nice gravel- red soil- lava clearing where a weaver, a dove, 2 fuliginosa and a corivostis were feeding. The weaver persevered near around, then left; the dove feed in loose soil under a fairly large (6"x4"x4") overhanging lava rock, the fuliginosa hopped along picking up seed from the surface and from corivostis pits and the coricostus was busy making more pits in the gravel. Watched it for some 15-20 minutes. It did almost all its foraging by neck turning; the head is placed against something [illegible], at the base of the Mandible and the feet are moved