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M. Hoford
1952
Tinamotis pentlandi
March 24 Huaylcaro, 15000'
turned around, and went back [track of one bird]
the way they came. I followed them
downhill 100 yd. and flushed the
bird (at a distance of 30 ft.) off a nest
with 6 eggs. This was among rocks
[No other
tracks led
to or from
nest] but not far above a nearly level saddle.
It was next to a grass clump, near
yareta, bare dirt, pycnophyllum, rocks.
March 26 Looked for tracks in snow again. On same
rocky hill where single bird [crossed out] roosted
March 24, a single bird had roosted
and then walked down onto flat where
I flushed it (about 300 yd. total). We
walked in direction it had flown
(to base of another rocky hill across
a saddle) and after about 200 yd.
found track of a single bird leading
from a nest with 6 eggs. No other tracks
so bird had spent night there. Eggs next
to tola brush on gentle slope. Track led
150 yd. from nest with bird apparently
feeding, then it had started to run
and soon joined 2 others, also running.
They all ran together and we followed
only about 200 yd. (still going away from
nest). We followed back the tracks of
the two. They had not been nearer to the