Galapagos field notes, v579
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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