El Salvador field notes, v4515
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on it. It was a very long legged long-tailed bird which we can't place as to classification. It was near an old hawk nest—probably the same locality, but was not breeding. There was another bird calling in the woods but I could not locate it. In the same locality I chased down a Pigeon Owl, but failed to get it. "It was giving a diminutive screech owl whistle with a quick on the end." It also did the tail twitching stunt the same as the bird cemetery at San Salvador. This morning we started out by running down some more Trogons. I found they came fairly well to call. One of the birds was a fumdee without the iridescent colors. The birds showed only moderate indication of breeding. While walking along a row of trees by a fence I flushed a Pigeon from her nest with one egg. It looked to be