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[[blue ink]] [[circle]] 136 [[/circle]] [[underline]] modestus [[/underline]], Nov. 26, 1955, VI without any sign of actual regurgitation. Have again seen [[image - male symbol]]'s mount straight from H; (this may be the usual procedure after all!). Better add another full category to my general classification of calls in gulls as a group. Add "fragmented" to "single note" "low intensity rhythm of repeated notes" and "high intensity rhythm of repeated notesn" "Fragmented" will take care of the Alarm Calls, etc.). [[left margin]] [[one vertical line and vertical crosshatch mark]] [[/left margin]] Heard flying bird give "rattle" LCN; then, without any perceptible break, give a rather long-drawn "Wah" note, rather reminiscent of M note. (May have been calling mate; this bird landed shortly and went straight into M). One copulation included 9 separate contacts of the cloacas!! This was also the first copulation in which I noticed the [[image - male symbol]] pecking down at the [[image - female symbol]] when she became restless. The HF movement is really more complex than a simple sideways peck. Often includes a downward pointing of the beak as the flagging movement occurs [[image - curved line]]. This is very rapid; and the bill has come back to its previous (usually horizontal) position by the time the flagging movement is completed I think that a similar downward swing was also characteristic of the HF of [[underlined]]inca[[/underlined]], (and possibly also of [[underlined]] belcheri [[/underlined]]). May be characteristic of many forms [[left margin]] [[blank]] [[/left margin]] Leaving 1:10 pm. [[pencil]] Back 5:20. Birds all on field; and I can't get there because of high tide [[left margin]] [[image-black triangle]] [[/left margin]] [[image-check mark above each letter or set of letters in paragraph]] LCN.LCN.LCN.LCN LCN. O-L-T O-L. LCN. Have seen one extreme L, after O, in which the bill was inclined slightly upward; Thus producing all approximation of an F. But this is the only case seen so far; and the posture still was much less extreme than the "F" of fuliginosus. [[left margin blank]] Found a way to field 5:50. [[left margin]] * comm. area field [[/left margin]] [[image-check mark above each set of letters/words]] LCN-LCN-LCN-LCN-LCN [[underline]] AggV before attack - V after attack [[/underline]] LCN-LCN-LCN. V. [[underline]] Agg V before attack-V after attack V after attack. M before attack-V after attack V during retreat. [[/underline]] V. [[underline]] V before attack-V&SS after attack [[/underline]]
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