El Salvador field notes, v4515
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74. located one. The rachets were just growing out and we noticed that they were tail coverts rather than actual tail feathers. Dad stopped for two or three way back and shot another female humming - (large). The bird showed every sign of breeding - I believed the nest type in the deep woods. This is the only place we see them feeding on manna blossoms. Dad also saw another cuckoo near where he got the bird with the egg ready to lay. It was giving the Robin like note that had been puzzling us here for some time. While in the elm grove above we should respectively an Ivory-bellied Woodpecker. Dad also got a Veiny Owl of the red shape. They look much like the red brown Records and as I think of it I believe I killed a green Record up today that was probably an owl.