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[[underlined]]Cyaneyres[[underlined]], Apr. 4, 1958, II 72[[circled]]


more standardized and almost certainly ritualized. Almost straight up and down, (very occasionally a downbeat was combined with turning to one side-- in the way that [[male symbol]] often do during the day disputes among themselves).
[[drawing of two birds]]
The picture at the top of the upbeat was obviously related to the St; but differed in that the black area of the back was prominently ruffled. (CR was also present - even during the HCN's; the lower breast and belly feathers were more or less ruffled as in Gfluff; and the feathers of the throat were also ruffled - forming a separate "tuft" - presumably in connection with the uttering of the notes.) The posture at the bottom of the downbeat was a rather hunched sitting posture, also with the CR and black back feathers ruffled (The head was sometimes lower - but still horizontal - than in my sketch above.) The HCN's were uttered during all phases of Bowing, at the peak, on the down beat, at the low point, and on the upbeat; but I think that they were most common as the beat went down from the high point (i.e. during the down-
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