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Poecilothraupis, Sept. 26, 1962, II

(They may, in fact, compete with the X Gloss). Obviously not disturbed by me. One continues feeding silently. The other just looks at me. Utters 1 or 2 soft "Tsit"s, quite different from PN's. After a couple of minutes, both birds fly off to distant branches. Utter PN's and soft "Loco" Bssp Notes in flight. 

Then birds fly about, uttering PN's and "Loco" Bssp's quite frequently, like yesterday. Then one seems to disappear. Remaining bird utters lots of PN's, one burst of "Wbl" Bssp Notes. Latter might be transcribed as "Bssp bu-rr-rrp bu-rr-rrp rrp" This is probably unusually brief for a series of "Wbl" Bssp Notes

Poecilothraupis, I 
September 30, 1962
Near Bogotá

In the three days I have worked here I have seen Fire-bellies almost everywhere along the road to and past Guasca. In a great variety of environments, dry scrub, hedges in open fields, wet scrub, with or without covering trees. This is certainly one of the most dominant species here.

Fire-bellies would seem to be more abundant, in most places where they occur, than Yellow-bellies near the Páranco La Negra.

I have not had time to pay attention to Fire-belly behavior here in detail, but I have noticed the following.

More often than not, the local Fire-bellies are not associated with inds. of other species. But they do associate with the latter with some really appreciable frequency. SEE TODAY'S NOT

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