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[[underlined]] Saltator [[/underline]], Dec 15, 1958, III [[circled]] 17

[[Hatch marks indicating the following species are along the left side. Blue hatch marks=Greyish (coerulescens) see Transcription pg60/pg15 Dec 14 1958]]

I think, [[underlined]] uttered a very soft R [[/underline]]!Then shut up for a second, continuing the Q in the extreme St.  Then the ♂ flew up from lower down in the tree (he must have been at least 10 ft from the ♀ when she started her soliciting). He immediately mounted the ♀, without any preliminary display.  The copulation was very brief and apparently unsuccessful the ♀ continued St.+ Q throughout, I think; but the ♂ slipped off immediately and flew at least several ft. away.  One or both birds uttered a burst of GHAC as he slipped off and flew away.  The ♀ relaxed her St and stopped Q almost immediately afterwards and flew away too.

[[underlined]]Saltator [[/underline]], I  December 17, 1958 Iquitos

[[Hatch marks indicating the following species are along the left side. Blue hatch marks=Greyish (coerulescens) see Transcription pg60/pg15 Dec 14 1958]]

     I am beginning to think that the reactions between the ♂ and ♀ Saltator described above on Dec. 15 were actually pair - formation or something very close to it.  The same ♂, at least, was around in the same area this morning; but he was much less conspicuous, uttering concealed in the shrubbery most of the time and uttered [[underlined]]many fewer [[/underline]]WS’s. In other words, it looks as if his sex and/or pairing drive had been largely satified since I first began my observations of him.

[[underlined]]Saltator [[/underline]], I  December 20, 1958 Iquitos.

[[Hatch marks indicating the following species are along the left side. Blue hatch marks=Greyish (coerulescens) see Transcription pg60/pg15 Dec 14 1958]]

     The breeding season of these gray Saltators must be quite long.