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P. DeBenedictis
1964
June 6 Colorado River, Parker Dam region, Calif.
being about as long as the song. The quality of the song
is tinkling, and the notes are high pitched, like an
Eastern Kingbird, whereas the quality of the loralapago
bird was that of one whispering loudly the songs.
At this area there was also a pair of Summer
Tanager's and a single other ?, and a Pewee.
From here we went directly to Government Camp
below Parker Dam, where we saw an Lucy Warbler
and 4 Inca Doves, the latter feeding on a lawn
and allowing close approach. We stopped at a spring,
where there were many small black tad poles, to look
for Cardinals; Saw 3 Pewees here and I saw a bird
flying over which Grey said was a ? Cardinal. Couldn't
find it again. Hot and Quite windy now. We
stopped at 2 or 3 places along the river, but didn't
find much except Doves (White-winged, Mourning), Vardius
and Lucy Warblers. Between Earp and Vidal Trail,
about 2 miles from Earp, a hawk flew across the
wood. It was small buteo size, with short wings,
somewhat + a longish tail. It appeared uniform whitish
below, very clean, with dark tips to the flight feathers.
Above it was dark brownish grey, the tail appearing
uniform and with pale [illegible] to the primaries. The
wing beat was rapid for a buteo, slower than a Cooper
Hawk; the light & dark colors sharply set off. It was
too far off to see fine details, but from what we saw it
appeared to be an adult Goshawk - don't know what