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Cyanerpes, May 5, 1958, II

left ♂; and it is undoubtedly significant that two ♂ didn't do any WS after her death either.

It is also significant that the other ♂ Blue stopped WS-ing after his ♀ was restored to him.

I have now caught another ♀ (unbanded) and let her loose in the aviary.

The ♂ Shining in the big aviary I has started to give SR now (each note could be nicely transcribed as "[[Jeeek?? Possibly unprintable?]]") when he is feeding in the Pagoda Bush flowers, whenever another bird (and particularly the ♀ Shining) comes near.

[underline]Cyanerpes[/underline], I         August 3, 1958
                                            Barro Colorado

The Blues seem to have been almost or completely absent from the neighborhood of the clearing, ever since I returned on June 23rd.

There are still Shinings around, however. I have just noted one interesting aspect of their social behavior. When I first put out the Plain and Golden-[[hooded?]] in the large aviary, they were both very noisy, with all sorts of CN's and CN [[Fill?]]'s. It is probably highly significant, therefore, that three captive Tanagers were frequently visited by a wild ♀ Shining Honeycreeper (probably ? always the same ♀), in spite of the fact that there were no other Honeycreepers in the aviary. I think that the female sum Shining must have been attracted by the sounds of the tanagers.