Field notes, v1404
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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