Galapagos field notes, v579
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De Benedictis 1964 10 June Wymau Creek, White Mts., Inyo Co., Calif. Creek. We worked along this first area for some time, then moved gradually down the canyon. I saw 2 more Calliope hummingbers and we saw and heard 1 or 2 more Broad-tails. No more juncos. The Empidonax here all except 3 or 4 seemed to be Gray Flycatchers, giving a sharp "wheat" or "whit" call note, plus a loud "dee hic" call and the usual "chew weet" song, some of its syllables being sharper than birds I have heard at Bora. The absence of Thail Flycatchers is most surprising but the willows give directly to sage, not years, and therefore is like Bora (instead of the grassy meadows where I usually find trailbirds). As we worked further down the bristle-cones, gave way to Prigons and jimpers (at 6500 feet). Nutcrackers remained common in this habitat, and we began to hear Steller's Javy (1 Scrub Jay also). Broad-tail Hummers were very common here - saw 3 or 4 at once and heard them everywhere we stopped. At one point we stopped and I heard an odd chip note, like a Noolville W., and in the wilows formed a Virginia's Warbler, the first we have found in this while in three years looking. MacGillivray Warblers were still the commonest Warblers, but we began to find a few Wilson