El Salvador field notes, v4515
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very pleasing thru part whistle, unusually loud and clear. We ran into two flocks of Trogomus elegans. They seem to associate in loose flocks. They often give the jay-like squeak and can be traced in this way. They sit still as all Trogans can be heard to flutter as they fly. They appear slightly larger than the spotted Trogan. The male I collected was eating seeds and cotapillars and was unusually merry thru the molt. Stubby found a Santa Cruz Woodpecker digging a hole in a 10' stub. There were several holes of this sort about. Evidently a favorite location. There was some other species of small Woodpecker about and I heard what I took to be a very large woodpecker drumping; I got within 5 feet of them. I also heard a trean. While in the vicinity of a singing Warbler that frequently jumped in a