El Salvador field notes, v4515
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79. Wed. Today I ran into the Brush Owls in fair numbers seeing four in all. They are what we have called young Ani and I believe all the birds that give the mysterious whistle in the grove which we attribute to the Ani. They flush only very close and fly with difficulty but have very large legs and put and row rapidly when once in the brush. They appear certainly as Brush Ani and fly like a young bird or a bird just flushing from the brush. All I have flushed them from our grove clump near Burges, for which they always make in haste. The frequency is truly Dad shot one of the White Jays Today. It was however in a dull plumage very brown on the back. The four yellow throated eagles we found yesterday made this morning hatched. Dad ran out to a pair of the ground Dow and