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P. DeBeneeditis
1464
March 5
Guayaquil, Guayas Prov., Ecuador.
55
Wren - about as big as a small Cactus Wren.
Refrors, wings and tail cross banded, tail square,
white supercillies, bordered with black. Plain pale
buffy below, refrors under the tail & under tail coverts,
bending, unmarkeded. Like a Giant Refors "Bewick's
Wren. No noise but a rat-a-tat (fast)-like buzz sawed.
Saw only 1 or 2 pairs in scrub.
56
Woodpecker - Downy woodpecker size. Brown
back, white belly marked with gray, tail with
long, black & white stripes. ? gray headed. ?
with yellow forehead, black [illegible], each feather
with white tip spot. Breast pattern was of five
lines of darker gray as:
over->
tail= [illegible]
long. ->
Saw only one pair in the A.H.
57
(2) Cuckoo - 12-14" long (fair size) Brown above,
streaked with darker, crested, crown black; a
long rect. pale spot from eye to the [illegible], black malar
stripe. Lightly buffy below, unmarkeded. Bill short,
decurved. Sat on top of a dead brush in the scrub
and sang, a clear double whistle, melodious,
"whee wee ". Over and over. Saw only 1 and
heard 2 more. No markings in flight.
58
"Flycatcher"- gray, paler below, with a black
crest and eye stripe; black wings & 2 white wing
bars & white feather edging; tail black with white
tip, shortish. Bill black, tip [illegible]. Sat quietly in