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P. DeBeauches
1964
(56)
Feb 21 Academy Bay, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos.
had 9 or 10 different songs, some much like the
songs of Camarhynchus, although usually higher
pitched. They seemed to show a little wing
flashing like a kinglet when they jumped. I saw
G. fortis chasing this species from a bush, and
a fuliginosa quite vigorously chasing a Camar-
chynchus parvulus about in a bush. I got to
within sight of some of the buildings of Bella Vista,
but did not go to the Town. I took the old trail
until a fork which cut over to the new trail, and
went up this for half an hour or so. Tree Scalesia
and a ? lonest tree were quite conspicuous here,
and the undergrowth made passage into the
woods almost impossible. Many flowers on the lower
bushes and on some Corolla, Markos, Cuthiles
and Conarhynchus were the commonest birds here,
but I saw a few G. fuliginosa and fortis and Yellow
Warblers as high as I went. I saw most of the Myiarchus
I noted into the Transition zone to as high as I went.
They seemed to prefer open areas in the forest and
were fairly common along the new trail which was
15 to 20 ft wide in most places (although only a foot
path has been cleared of cundu brush). One bird passing
near a spot where a Myiophobes had landed
gave a rough, hollow throaty "pr-et pr-et per-
per per per pr-et per et" etc, with nearly the quality
of M. cinereosus but not as loud. The cistures