Field notes, v637
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Field Notes Doug Bell Location: UC Berkeley Campus October 19, 1988 -cont #3 It has a long, thick malar strip going all the way to the upper breast. The breast markings (longitudinal too thin brown markings) on the shaft begin right where the malar stripes leave off. The entire breast & flanks are so marked - looks very oddly. The markings on shaft are too thin for a Peck's. The only clear, unmarked spot areas on this bird are the throat and an area just behind the malar and [illegible] below the ears. Some shaft markings in the clear area on head behind the + back of head malar, where brown nape blends into the area behind the malar. The nape has two - few strands of light brown, gold in it, otherwise the back is uniformly dark. There is no light area or stripes above the eyes, as a E.p. trendices would have. All things considered, this is probably a E.p. anatum. The lower belly & flanks has some thicker shaft-markings, but it is surprisingly "meat" in appearance. This tunel ate non-stop from 14:00 - 15:00, passing for alert viewing of its surroundings. It tore chunks of pigeon pelvis, eating smaller pieces of bone, finally, towards end of its meal, it swallowed on pink pigeon foot whole. It picked over all last remaining scraps, as if it just couldn't bring itself to pass anything up in spite of being loaded with a full crop. After it finally finished, he walked along the railing to the NE corner, feasted its fill, stretched, then after a few minutes it launched itself out and circled the campuspile for a few times, powering,