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[[underlined]] dominicanus [[/underlined]], Dec. 5, III

One very interesting incident adult bird gave usual HD int. [[?]]., with call; and then, [[underlined]] without the slightest pause [[/underlined]], kept head going down & back and began to preen lower breast feathers in a perfectly normal-appearing manner. Excellent example of" facilitation by similar feed-backs" or whatever you want to call it.

December 6, 1955,
Autogasta Bay

[[underlined]] dominicanus [[/underlined]]

Add a few supplementary remarks to yesterday's notes 

Correction The eyes are not really dark. They are actually grey, just as Murphy says. But this is only noticeable when bright sunlight is shining right into a birds eyes. In the shadow of the eyebrows the eye does look dark; the only effect of the greyness then is to make the eye look smaller. (It is small at the best of times

Front view this bird is remarkably flat-headed. [[image - front view of bird's head]] 

Confirm. The carpal joints are usually (perhaps always in this situation) [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] lifted during O & HD. Sometimes they are hardly visible

[[underlined]] T [[/underlined]]-HD after attack!!

Bird making long circling flight. (Didn't see what happened before it flew up. Gave repeated LCN's and 2 M notes: "Aow Aow Aow Aowoooooa Aow Aow Aowooooooa.... ". Then back, landed by itself. This incident suggests that M note is not too closely tied to "purely" sexual behavior. (On, of course, that what I have been calling M notes is something like a Pcc).

[[image - male symbol]] regurgitates food for [[image - female symbol]], [[underlined]] after [[/underlined]] mutual T'ing, copulation, [[image - female symbol]] T'ing.

Can confirm general weakness of voice. Certainly true of T note, M note on ground, & Cop Call