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[[underlined]]Cyanerpes[[/underlined]], Feb. 25, 1958, II
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today I haven't been able to follow this well; but I have seen that the [male symbol]'s tend to sit and look violently right, left, upward & downward, in the pauses between active [chaos?] & fights. This is usually accompanied by extreme TF and WF (usually upward I think). The head & body movements are very conspicuous, and they are presumably what [[Shutch?]] calls "bowing"; but they do not seem to form a ritualized whole. Just extreme [[int. movs.?]]; the result of "inhibited" desire to move off.

The captive [[symbol: female]] Shining did some more vocalizing early this morning just as she did at dawn yesterday. Lots of rather irregularly spaced R's, usually introduced by gradually accelerating CN's, and terminated by one or more Bzz's. The whole thing is rather reminiscent of a "song"; and she seemed to slur or modify a few of the CN's or R Notes in such a way that the effect was almost "warbling" at times.

I have now been listening to more songs by the young captive Blues; and it is obvious that many of them (possibly a majority) are not associated with HCN's. It is only that HCN's are the only "overt" patterns with which their WS's are ever associated with any appreciable frequency at all.

The Blue left [[symbol: male]] has been following & flying after the light green left [[symbol: female]] much of the time this afternoon. This hasn't led to anything much, except once, when he got the [[symbol: female]] into a corner above [[underscored]] him, he went into an extreme St & CR posture, just like the ordinary St. of [[symbol: female]]'s, very tall & thin. I.E. the [[symbol: male]] is perfectly capable of assuming a "feminine" pattern - when the orientation factors are suitable.
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