Field notes, v1351
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"Leptotila" "mourning dove" (tan-breasted, gray-backed dove, the size of a turtle dove (larger?) with rounded, white-edged tail) Hendrickson 1950 Oct. 22 5 km. N. Villavieja, 1400 ft., Huila, Colombia, S.A. Found a nest containing two eggs in a pocket in a 6'-10' cliff-face W. of R.R. tracks, almost on a line thru camp and R.R. culvert just N of camp. The pocket lay opened W.N.W. The nest was a flat collection of sticks and grass stems. A female flushed off the nest as I approached. cliff face minor ledge ferns major ledge pocket nest broad leaved, shrubby plants cliff face Nov. 1 Perico shot on a female with an oviducal egg this P.M.; it was in a small tree in the thicket around camp. Local name (general) is "tortula" Nov. 3 In Duebaba Carbetana about '1/2 mile downstream (WSW) from camp, watched two individuals sitting back and forth on a limb about 15 ft. above me, slapping one-another violently with their wings. I approached to