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[[underlined]]Cyanerpes[[/underlined]], I.
September 26, 1959
London Zoo

There is a single ♂ Red-leg here, in a small cage by itself. In full nuptial plumage. It may be significant that this bird has shown no tendency to sing in any way during the period I have been watching him

[[underlined]]Cyanerpes[[/underlined]], I
June 23, 1960
Barro Colorado

I have long had 2 ♂ Shinings here. One in left outside cage. The other in a small cage in the Animal House. Yesterday afternoon we caught a ♀. I put her in the left outside cage with the ♂ this morning shortly before 6:30 a.m. The ♂ reacted to her appearance quite strongly.
As soon as the ♀ was released in the cage, she flew to a perch and sat there, motionless, for several minutes. Presumably panic-struck. The ♂'s initial reaction to her appearance was to utter R. In unritualized posture at first; but he flew to the ♀ after 2 or 3 seconds, still continuing R, and started to  hop around her & near her, in an FSt Posture Quite extreme BL (but probably with very little "Belly-fluffing") Then, standing still beside the ♀, he began to perform a more elaborate display. In a moderately extreme St Posture (see [[arrow pointing to drawing of bird]]) he spread his wings [[underlined]]approximately[[/underlined]]  horizontally and began to Quiver them. This horizontal stretching of the wings was much more extreme than any similar stretching I have ever seen performed by this
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