Galapagos field notes, v579
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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