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De Bemolili
1964
Feb 23 Wreck Bay, Isla San Cristobal, Galapagos.
2 or 3 Myiarchus, a couple of Pairs of Nesomimus.
Collected a singing S. Caetospiya here. It is much
appreciated than the Santo Cruz form. The song is
much like a soft Cactus bird song. "Chun chun
chun chun", very deep. The deepness is the best
way to tell it from Camarhynchus song. I saw one
other on the way up, near the top of the cliffs,
which gives way to a forest which extends
nearly 7/3's the way to Progreso. The same birds
as below occur here + Certhidea. Nesomimus
and Myiarchus are common here and it was
in this I saw the Pyrocephalus at the A.M. An
Aeschnid dragonfly + the libellamid species we saw
on Ferdinandina were fairly common along the path.
and the sulfur butterfly, Phoebis, was common in
a low, orange-flowered begonia along the path. Saw
2 Vanessa carpae and a number of Blue (Lycaenidae)
(H. isola?) and a Urbanus skipper. There were 10+
Queens, Danaus bernice, along the path (which
has not been reported from this islands according to Dr.
Uniqua) and a t! of bright yellow & black wasps.
Moths were common + saw Myiarchus chasing them.
Above the forest Oranges (scattered Paul Trees) and
Manzanillo trees become more and more common;
litchees hang from the trees like Spanish moss and
small ferns are frequent. Cultivated Agave is frequent
here. The 2 Geospiza becomes less common, while