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[[underline]] inca [[/underline]], Nov. 12, 1955, VIII [[image-number 59 in circle]]
M.C. M.C.
[[4 left margin images- (1).25 darkened vertical thick line, 1 inch in length(2).25 in darkened vertical thick, 1 inch in length (3).25 darkened vertical thick line, 1 inch in length (4)1 inch by 1 inch area of connecting horizontal lines descending layered with right upper corner diagonal lines descending to left lower corner]]

Notice presumed pair. Land, in or near communal area, do mutual V+HF ^ [[four check marks]] ceremony (age, 1y [[male symbol]], plain V [[?]] [[female symbol]]) Fly off. Land another place Repeat Fly Off. Is this connected with pairing in some way?

[[Left margin image - 2 inch length by 1 inch width area of connecting horizontal lines descending  from right upper corner layered with right upper corner diagonal lines descending to left lower corner]]
[[drawing of gull in middle page, right of left margin image - 3 inch by 3 inch pencil outline drawing of gull, with head facing upward and beak slightly opened, light shading on top of head]] 

Extreme [[dark oval]]. Differs from St. primarily in even longer neck, less angles on neck

Again peculiar fish business. 2 birds, possibly pair. "[[female symbol]]" with fish in bill. FO-F "[[male symbol]]" in F. "[[male symbol]]" does F+Cht "[[female symbol]]" may conceivably answer with a little cht, still in F, but as usual difficult to tell Then "[[male symbol]]" [[underline]] flies off, in circular flight, in [[Moth Flight?]] and St, [[image-symbol for female]] follows, in circular flight, largely unritualized, possibly trace of Moth. [[/underline]] (This is quite like Fish Flight). Both birds back together. As before Almost no display, but both showing tendency to F "[[image-symbol for male]]" flies off in St, possible trace of Moth Flight "[[image-symbol for female]] remains until general Silent Panic 3:00.

Notice that bird has been resting peacefully all afternoon in spot where bird with fish (A) was active in morning. Hope this is A. Showing no interest in other birds.

More fishy business. Probably involving a pair already mated. One bird with fish, in F. Other bird HB in H+R ([[image-symbol for female]]?). "[[image-symbol for male]]" hands over fish, or, rather, allows "[[image-symbol for female]]" to seize it. [[image-symbol for female]] out of H+R, into semi-H, semi-FO Then interruption as "[[image-symbol for male]] goes to threaten neighbor with [[image-dark oval]]. Then both birds of pair fly off. Fish carrying bird first.

What may possibly function as ALC is a sound like a brief, smothered version of Cht. No more than 3 syllables usually, at 

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