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several individuals are more or less close together.  Sometimes they are accompanied by escape movements or intention movements.  They may be “contact” or “call” notes or (alternatively) alarm notes.  (These “Tsit” Notes may be the same as the “tseek” notes which Eisenmann, 1954, heard uttered by wild Streaked Saltators on Barro Colorado Island.) 

     The Hoarse Notes can be divided into three main types.  An individual caught in a trap (or held in the hand) utters long, loud, urgent-sounding “Hoarse Screams^”, quite like those of many related species.  These probably are purely hostile and high intensity, [[underlined]] i.e. [[/underline]] produced by very strong motivation.  Similar but softer notes were uttered by the captive individual disputing with a Buff-throated Saltator.  They were closely associated with overt attack movements, and presumably were aggressive and of moderate intensity.  They appeared to be essentially identical with the “Harsh Hoarse Notes” of Green-backed Sparrows and Crimson-backed Tanagers [[underlines]] (Ramphocelus dimidiatus)[[/underline]].  Both these types of Hoarse Notes seem to be much less common than the third type, which may (for want of a better name) be called “Chah” Notes.  “Chah” Notes are usually or always uttered in short series.  In many series, the successive notes become progressively shorter and lower in pitch; but all the notes of some series are slightly longer than the corresponding notes of other series.  The longest “Chah” Notes may be slightly bisyllabic and could be transcribed as “Cha-ah”.  The shortest notes end very abruptly and might be transcribed as “Chak” (some are almost “Chuk”).  Intermediates between the longest and shortest notes are common, [[underlined]] i.e. [[/underline]] the two extremes seem to intergrade completely.  “Chah” Notes of all types are uttered most frequently when one individual joins another (its mate or another member of its own family group) and when two or more individuals are moving about in more or less close proximity to one another.  Occasionally, they are uttered by apparently single individuals landing alone.  Thus, they appear to be “greeting” or “landing” patterns like the “Medium Hoarse Notes” of Green-backed Sparrows.  The longer “Chah” Notes also