El Salvador field notes, v4515
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46 While on our way home we located a Ani nest with one egg in a wide spreading low tree. The nest was of sticks well lined with leaves. Both birds were present. In the Palm tree there was a Ani nest with 7 eggs which I collected. The object was like the other. The eggs are stone gray. The Munting nest in the palm is just building. Towards evening we went out hunting Seed Eater nests but was unsuccessful. I believe they nest pretty low. The only way of finding them is by the birds or possibly by flushing directly. Today we got four first Paraguetes. They were in a tall tree in a small flock. They are rather wild and do a great deal of flying about. They look like Sandpipers in flight and talk as much as geese. There are many of the small blackbirds around of which I collected a or two yesterday. She was ready