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[[insert pencil]] The VOCAL REPERTORY[[/insert]]
[[strike out]] The displays[[/strikeout]] of Panamanian Buff-throated Saltators [[strikeout]] include Gaping, [[/strikeout]] [[insert pencil]] INCLUDES[[/insert]] "Wheet" Notes, Hoarse Notes, "Tsit" Notes, Rattles, Flourishes, [[insert pencil]] AND [[/insert]] Dawn Calling. [[strikeout]] various ruffling and fluffing patterns, Bill-up Postures and (probably) several other special postures and movements. The Gaping seems to be basically similar to that of Streaked Saltators in form. It may be silent or (occasionally) accompanied by Hoarse Notes. It was observed only during disputes among captive individuals, usually prolonged and vigorous disputes.[[/strikeout]]

The "Wheet Notes (all or most of which might be equally well transcribed as "Tseet") are clear, fairly high pitched notes of moderate length. They may be uttered singly or in series, sometimes short, occasionally long. They are uttered in a great variety of more or less ambiguous situations. I have heard such notes uttered by apparently single birds in the wild, by one or both birds of pairs in the wild, and by captive birds in close association with both overtly hostile and overtly sexual patterns. They are uttered much more frequently by birds in flight, or hopping rapidly from perch to perch, than by birds sitting still. Thus, they could be purely locomotory "flight calls" and/or hostile signals and/or sexual signals. It may be significant, however, that the longest and most rapid series of such notes heard during the present study were uttered by captive individuals escaping from more aggressive individuals during particularly violent disputes. This would suggest that many, perhaps all, "Wheet" Notes are purely or predominantly hostile, and produced when the tendency to escape is stronger than the tendency to attack. They may be related to the "Tsit" Notes of Streaked Saltators, and subserve the same or similar functions. (In many, perhaps most, other tanagers and [[insert]]NEW WORLD[[/insert]] finches, vocalizations which include clear "ee" sounds are purely or predominantly sexual. The only known exceptions, among the neotropical forms with which I am familiar, are [[insert]]SOME SPECIES OF [[/insert]] [[underline]] Chlorospingus[[/underline]], [[strikeout]] species and some species of "bush-finches" of [[/strikeout]] [[underline]]Atlapetes[[/underline]], and related genera. If the

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