Feb 27 Wreck Bay, Isla San Cristobal, Galapagos. forth over the top stones; they appeared to be very interested in the dead resources but wouldn't go near it. I gave up here and took everything, (except my binoculars) back to the road, located another bird singing and this time cleared it first to see where it was hanging out. This was a dense Bursera grove, full of finches, so I set up line, left the dead worker in the net. went back to Wreck Bay but this time discovered the binoculars were gone). I then ate lunch - a fruit drink, tamarindo, sold at a "cafe" here got me through the afternoon and about 1 I went up to check the net & get my binoculars. No birds, not even any near the net; missed a few of the best Troglodytes and got my binoculars back. Went back in and packed to go back in the evening; but the skeletons in a small c - roll on box, & everything else in a large box, then went up to shoot some birds I take the net down. Saw 6 Gonatodes in the tree about 3:30 P.M.. They would dash to a crevice in the bark when I was c. 3 ft away (this was the closest I could see them) and then when I moved the noise in they would run up behind the bark into some large hollow space there; a small crowd of Ecuadorian children around didn't help any! I suspect that they could be caught more obtrusively by taking flypaper to the tree, but one