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scourbii, Dec. 29, 1955, IV.           213 [[page#, circled in top right corner]]

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the hauh[[?]] Al.C notes.

An interesting "L.C." performance by juvenile (probably - possibly an adult in non-nuptial plumage- but I doubt it). During dispute over a mating spot.  Juv, sitting down. Goes into HD posture (like that of the adults in nuptial plumage), utters one very "ready" (almost pure rattle) juv, LCN, then gives four T's with T notes. [[underlined]] This is probably merit[[?]] significant in connection with the L.C. of the Blue-billed gull.[[/underlined]]

I have seend unusual cases of HF (single movement) after attack.  Either unritualized or very low intensity.  From relaxed posture (navi[[?]]-u) or low intensity V.  Sometimes precedes T in these circumstances.

I have seen a number of "V"s either unritualized, or, more probab-ly, low intensity.  Some newi[[?]]-agg, (bill like this [[arrow descending from left pointing to right]]), during aggress-ive charges and after attack.  Some rather aux, difficult to tell from "alert posture, (bill like this [[arrow ascending from left pointing to right]]), by retreating birds during disputes in no case were the caipi[[?]] more than just visible

Must stress the fact that even the T's that occur during feeding are apparently purely hostile.  Closely associate with actual fighting.  No trace of FB (i.e. no bird facces another and gives repeated T's - almost all these T's are single movements - if not they are unmistaliably[[?]] associated with fighting) 

pm. Return to the same place.  Same amount of birds, doing same thing. More about L.C. performances all around.  Saw one bird do L.C. just like this morning, [[underlined]] HD-O, this followed by difinite T movement, extreme, with LCN, not T note.[[/underlined]] This bird was adult in comple nuptial plumage Another bird, adult in almost complete nuptial plumage, gave repeated brief bursts of O notes (about 3 or 4 in series) from neut-O posture, [[underline]] nothing more,[[/underline]] during various disputes during feeding.  Bill closed during at least one of the bursts, (and the notes did sound muffled. Same bird, (he was particul-arly aggresive), alsot gave the most elaborate L.C. perfomance I have

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Transcription Notes:
Multiple spots mention a nuit or neut or noit - 0 position, I believe neut-0 to be the correct interpretation but I have transcribed them as I believed them to be written. Mercifully, our researcher's handwriting has actually improved over the duration of his observations and this transcriber is thankful.