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[[underlined]]Cyanerpes[[/underlined]], June 23, 1960, II     
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species before. Sometimes both wings were held straight out at the same level. Perhaps more frequently, however, one wing was held higher than the other In this case, it was always the wing nearest the ♀ which was higher than the other, (this is the position of the wings shown in the drawing on the preceding page).
(The drawing on the preceding page is perhaps slightly misleading, insofar as it is drawn from above. The wings were usually at least level with the back. Not infrequently raised somewhat above the back - even when both wings were at the same level.)
As soon as the ♂ began this extreme horizontal Q display, he stopped uttering R's  The first part of this extreme Q display was apparently quite silent, but after a few seconds the ♂ uttered 2 (or 3?) very soft, muffled, Bzz's (no twang), still continuing the horizontal Q display as vigorously as ever. 
The extreme horizontal stretching of this Q pattern was quite reminiscent of the BV of the large black Diglona{{?}} I have watched on Cerro Atacaso in Ecuador! 
The ♀ did not respond to this display by the ♂  for some seconds. When she flew away from the ♂ , to the opposite side of the cage, where she hung, vertically, on the wire. The ♂  stopped his horizontal Q and Bzz display immediately, and followed the  ♀. He landed on a perch below her, and immediately started to utter a long series of essentially uniform, rather prolonged and definitely high pitched "Tweeeet"  Notes. Comme ca: [[8 horizontal lines]]
In a slight St Posture, without other ritualized postural components or movements, (it is possible that his slight "St" was little more than looking up at the ♀). These notes were definitely more prolonged, and probably higher pitched, than the ordinary CN's. Definitely another type of display. The w
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