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of Las Palmas, a collection of palm thatched jacales with corrales. Here we stopped for the night sleeping under a thatched shed in front of one of the houses. On our way down the last half of the cañon we saw many San Blas Jays.
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While at work in the morning in front of the house where we camped a pair of Amazona Finschi came into a large wild fig tree growing in the street in front & examined a couple of holes at the forks of branches as though considering the advisability of choosing nesting sites. One I shot & the mate flew away & after circling high overhead back & forth for ten minutes & failing to get any reply to its loud call notes it came back & alighting in the same tree uttered a series of call notes in a lower key as though expostulating with the missing bird for not replying. A large Pithecolobium tree growing by one of the houses here was a great resort for San Blas [[strikethrough]] Jays [[/strikethrough]] & Collie's Jays besides two orioles. The birds were after the fruit & made a pretty sight as they worked about in the branches. Several of the San B. Jays came to a small tree by the shed where I sat & one or two came down to alight on a cord fastened between two posts close by & sat there within ten feet until their curiosity seemed to become satisfied & with an [[strikethrough]] air [[/strikethrough]]