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not not note was wrong.
We chased down the same
note and shot the bird which
was a very handsome trogon.
The trogon gave a bear to
skin as I expected. The bird
is very quiet as to motion
but continually gives the
grebe-like note. The note
however is hard to place.
We crossed the Santa River
and went up into some
new country. See a great
many new things were
heard. The small trogy headed
Flycatcher that I got yesterday
seems to have another
plumage of red brown with
no rose color. I have
intermediate birds. These
may be bearsards. The feet
are pretty large for Flycatchers
and so put in this species
to be blue.
Several of the gray whistler
I got the 18th day and could not
give were heard but they
seem by nature extremely
shy.
We got our first "Gil"
Woodpeckers today. They
have a greenish cast of coat
which for fresh plumage