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P. De Benedicto
1964
March 5
Guayaquil, Guayas Prov., Ecuador
an ad dark tail, a dark (no color) <shaped gorget which stood out from the breast + left a white "macaw" mark below the face. ? Gorget green or more likely blue.
Saw only this well, but other hummers seen by may have been this. At the forest edge in the afternoon, nearby following.
72
Large Hummingbird. Bill dark, O-shape.
Green, blackish fan, forked tail + blackish primaries.
Sides of belly turquoise, irridescant, throat, mid breast irridescent blue. Belly black (green or blue).
Saw one for sure at forest edge, prob. another in the scrub. in the A.M. The well seen bird was <tied prominently over a large bush of orange-red flowers.
Pice bird. Trochilus sp.
73
Dove. Size and shape of Inca dove, brown-grey color; coarse black (narrow) cross bars on back, under side of wings and tail black, as was bill; feet dull red. Otherwise no pattern. Two raised a short abrupt ceeet. <6>. Fairly common along the forest edge but shy and hard to see. Call a low, soft, "coo hoo".
74
Tanager - gray, short black bird, Stellar Jay blue flight feathers. Black eyes. Smaller than #38, not as long looking. Has a fast chatty song in between a seedeater and a flycatcher. Saw one in a tree at the forest edge and two well out in the open in the wet area.