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[[underline]] Cyanerpes [[/underline]], Jan. 29, 1958, II 34
sometimes pause on a branch long enough to do a little preening, sometimes alternating several WS's with several preening movements (usually preening breast and belly feathers or under wings). He also, at such times, did a lot of bending down "to look at feet" in what were presumably rit. movs. of preening (I shall call these BD). The WS sometimes continued through the BD. His plumage was usually quite smooth throughout this whole performance (without even a trace of CR), although he did one general ruffle during a WS immediately before a general shaking-out of the whole plumage. This preening looked as if it might be "really" significant, i.e. definitely linked to the WS by particular  internal factors - like the comfort movements associated with the song of the Bananaquit, (although the actual performance of a complete preening movement suppressed the WS, momentarily, as the bird could hardly sing and preen absolutely simultaneously); but this apparent correlation may have been coincidence. The bird certainly always gave WS's and preened whenever it landed where it could do both conveniently; but it may be that it just had a high preening drive anyhow. This must be checked by further observations! The preening movements themselves certainly looked perfectly normal and "autochthonous".
None of the other Blue Honey creepers reacted to the WS's of this young juvenile. The older juvenile sometime flew back & forth in the cage, more or less following the younger bird in his flights, but this is a common performance in any circumstances. The adult ♂ once landed beside the young juvenile