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Aug 29 - 37 cont so Fred came on into Valles to get gun fixed & get started skinning birds. Then Carlos Zinzer & I started along collecting Saw lots of birds many unknown but collected the larger. 1. Lizard Cuckoo. Saw & collected two which acted much like yellow bills. 2. Blue Grosbeaks 3 3. Orioles 3 or 4 4. Small flycatcher common Empidonax type 5. [[Darby?]] Flycatcher 6 col 1 6. Couches Kingbird sev (3) 7. Magpie Jay 2 col 1 8. Buteo like small broadwing 1 col) 9. Mexican Goshawk 2 col 1 10. Ani many col 1 11. Parrots - 2 - 8 - 6 - 16 altogether 12. Many small birds couldn't identify Skinned birds with Fred until midnight,& later. tired as hell but glad to get the jungle stuff we got this afternoon. Aug 30-1937 Left Valles at 8:00 AM and drove thru to Monterey arriving at 6:00 PM. I intended to start skinning but found that division of the baggage had left my equipment in the second car which did not reach Monterey until 9:00 PM One hawk badly shot had been previously thrown away & I ruined a Couch's Kingbird trying to skin it