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[[underlined]] Saltator [[/underlined]], Apr. 7, 1958, II [[circled]] 9 [[/circled]]

A single (♂?) Streaked has also been around this morning, singing from bare twigs on the top of tall trees. Song itself is very simple. When complete, it seems to be in 2 parts - like so many vocalizations in this group. First 3 notes, rather sharp, and then a longer, more plaintive and whistle-like note:

[[image - two short lines;another short line slightly below the first two; followed by a fourth line which is long, and upward curving. Underneath is written: duh duh duh wheeeooo]]

Sometimes abbreviated by dropping out one of the first 3 notes; sometimes cut off without the last note. Given from an erect sitting posture, apparently unritualized. Wings drooped, but not spread. The whole wings lifted out from body a little, sideways, with each note, (apparently just the physical result of forcing out the sound)
A few of the notes, including some of the notes of the first part and the last longer note also, were accompanied by a "rattle undertone"; but this was [[underlined]] definitely not [[/underlined]] present in most of the notes most of the time.
This would certainly seem to be a WS, strictly comparable and homologous with those of the Buff-throat.
This afternoon, back on BCI, I watched  the captive Saltators for a little while. Not much - just one interesting fact about the Buff-throats. When I first put the second Buff-throat (yellow left) in the aviary a few days ago, it did [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] skulk in the underbrush. Flew back and forth very excitedly near the roof; but gradually settled down rather well. But today it does seem to be remaining very low in the bushes. Presumably due to the aggressiveness of the first Buff-throat, which is strongly dominant, and still attacks yellow-left