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110 July 4, 1969 El Pepino Going to work on Fuerberger's place above the camparmento. NOTE: This is the rainy season. And it has been raining hard here for the last 8 days. But it looks as if it might be going to clear up today. Start out late. Arrive edge lower patch of woods 7:05 am. Sky still overcast. Toucans are calling steadily. But otherwise forest is rather quiet. Arrive upper patch of woods 7:25 am. Just as light drizzle starts. Rain doesn't last. But then I find that quite a lot of scrub has been cut along edges of upper part of path. Getting clearer 8:02 am. 8:05. Hear outburst of 3 and 4 note series of W's. Possibly tamarins. Notes of moderate length. Apparently a response to sound of tree falling in distance. Sun comes out, briefly, 9:13 am. Birds are quite noisy. Oropendolas apparently breeding. But no monkeys visible or audible. 10:25 am. Cloudy again. Walking along side path. Region of moderately tall but not very dense forest. Come across 2 Callicebus torquatus. When first seen, about 30 ft up. Run up higher, to 40-60 ft. Then gradually