82 They have a way of hopping up into the leaves of a tree and moving slowly about which gets them away. The long tail is hard to conceal when moving. Usually they like dense scrub in the stream bed, but Dad found one today in some trees in a pasture quite away from house grounds. July 23 Thurs. Yesterday, having heard of a certain bird—the Quebranto Neco—in the fields below, we went to chase him up and found it to be a full plumaged Caracara. The young birds all here called Aguiasus. We ran into many Parrots feeding in the trees on the hills and got several of both species. Also heard a large woodpecker. Any little else of particular interest was noted. We saw one tiny owl and