P. DeBeneckle 1964 205 4 March Guayaquil, Guayas Prov., Ecuador. gave single "chinks" in flight. We got thoroughly wet and tired and about ~1 P.M we came in and spent the rest of the evening on the "Bear." Going birding tomorrow. Ted Papenjus & Kiester came in today about midnight with a bunch of frogs and toads and a few lizards they caught out toward the Anchies. They brought in a live yellowthroat which I squeezed. Hope it was frozen. 5 March. Hot & lots of bugs; didn't sleep too well. Got up about 7 and about 8 started walking towards Guayaquil to look at birds. I had intended to go most of the way but then was so much close at hand I never made it. The area I worked in the morning was open wet scrub. Near the Port there was some water and open mud but mostly the open space was grown to glass, a squash-like live, and sedges; the ground was of moist crocked mud. Spaced in this were clumps of low trees (15-20 ft.), acacia and broad leaf trees, with dense tangles about some of the trunks. If the trees were taller it could be called a forest-savannah edge - it is a grass-scrub edge, the grassland the openness of the bushes maintained by grazing. I saw one hybrid frog in the glass here, and lots of dragonflies, butterflies and mosquitoes. Stayed out until about noon, and had a sail. Every time I turned around I found something I hadn't