Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
C. Koford
78
Journal
May 30, 1951 To Juliaca, Dpto. Puno, Peru.
At camp, -6° C to +16° C. Last day. Departed 8 a.m. for Juliaca.
8:10 overcast. At Posario 10 a.m. Cost pond 2+ miles before
Posario had 15+ costs. One with green legs and red frated
shield (white edgewing) had 4 young, downy, with red bills.
At noon, at Acillo, 82 1/2 miles from summit near camp.
Saw a young foxglove root 4 miles toward Ayaviri. Then a
lake with 50+ cooters and some ducks. Some individual coots
standing on 3' diameter islands of vegetation (nesta?). 10
miles from Acillo to Ayaviri-Tirapata junction, then 6
miles to Tirapata, 7.8 miles to another small town,
1.4 to river crossing (bridge), and 9 miles to main Cuzco-
Juliaca road. Thence 40.4 miles to Juliaca, arriving
2:40 p.m. Thence 27 1/2 miles to Puno. Went to Dpto. Eyten-jeria in Prefecture. They had heard nothing on my solicited
for residence. Shopped. Returned to Juliaca and stayed with
Duffie's. They had seen 5+ condors and many bats at Sondia
last week.
May 31, 1951 Puno & Juliaca, Dpto. Puno, Peru.
Drave to Puno to visit Prefecture. Carmila not there but telegram
sent to Lima, inquiring, and nothing else necessary. Shopped. Returned
to Juliaca. Packed specimens so far and left them at Duffie's.
On way to Puno immediately encountered flock 50+ parakeets 5 miles
from Puno and shot 2. Yellow-breasted finch with olive back common
One of tinker 6 x 4 mm., wt. 24g. A
on ground about half way made. Also saw sparrow-lark,
white-breasted junco with chestnut shoulders and blue-gray back,
cavener, and 30+ glossy ilusis. Day clear but rather
cool. Stayed Juliaca for night.