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Pezopetes, I  

March 26, 1960
Cerro Punta 

(?)= capitalis = Big footed Finch.

We have seen a pair of their birds several in a very dense thicket near the upper pasture. Always in almost exactly the same place. Apparently not following the mixed flocks in the same area.

These birds are very retiring. Never appearing outside the thicket. And quite remarkably silent, at least when we are looking at them. I have yet to identify a single vocal pattern of theirs.

I did get a chance to watch one bird for a few minutes, however. Did pronounced TF-ing. U-D with pronounced lateral component. Tail fanned at the same time. Each TF apparently accompanied by a moderately well-defined WF.

[[image - sketch of bird

 Relaxed
    
Remarkably small-headed & large bodied. Otherwise rather like the Green-back.



Pezopetes, I   

March 27, 1960
Cerro Punta

We watched a single Bigfoot for a few minutes, both yesterday afternoon and this morning. Quite "nervous" both times. Still remarkably silent. (The only sound we may have heard a Bigfoot utter was a brief, harsh, "chank," which David thinks he heard the