El Salvador field notes, v4515
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with a heavy - Ani like beak and a white line above the eye. It was too badly shot to save and I suppose we will get others. There is here, a large Grackle but it is apparently different from the birds at Bilina Bay. It is larger and has a distinct road to of the wings when flying over. Both Dad and I got a large Magpie Jay. They were traveling around in pairs or threes and were quite shy in the open. While in the Compound we saw a flock of large black swifts flying overhead. They looked much like the regulation Black Swift. I got in all two Motmots. One was either of a separate species or two a juvinal bird. It had us well of black feathers on the throat. (Both were male) Our motmot in particular was noted to be partial to a certain locality - a large shady tree. Once and again he would