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[[underlined]] Saltator [[/underline]],Dec. 20, 1958, I  [[cirled]] 18

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

I saw one pair of adults today with 2 [[underlined]] fully [[/underline]] fledged and well-flying young.  Also another pair well-mated, but apparently no nest yet.

      This species is quite shy here, in the sense that it tends to fly away quite promptly when one approaches.  But most of the birds seem quite stolid otherwise, sitting all but motionless for long periods of time when un-alarmed.  Presumably correlated with this comparative lack of mobility is the fact that it utters remarkably few CN’s.  I have only heard one bird utter about 5 or 6 CN’s, single notes at quite long intervals, given by a ♂, after WS-ing, before flying off.  These CN’s are not unlike those of the [[underlined]]Rhamphocelus [[correct spelling, Ramphocelus]][[/underline]] tanagers here,  but even more metallic, i.e. even more like the CN’s of the Blue-black Grosbeak (although apparently never double)

     The ♂ gives his WS’s from much the same posture as the other Saltators.  Sitting very erect.  In some cases, at least, he also tends to point the head & bill diagonally upward, to some extent, at an angle approximately like this [[arrow at 2 o’clock position]]

      I am now fairly certain that mates tend to give GHAC whenever they join one another I even heard 2 birds give repeated bursts of GHAC when they were just sitting (and/or moving about very slightly) in the same tree only a few feet apart.  Unfortunately, however, I never got a good view of the birds doing this, this morning, so I don’t know if it is usually accompanied by particular movements or postures or not.

     One juvenile sitting near an adult this morning reacted to the adult in a rather peculiar way which may have been begging.  From time to time, especially when the adult turned toward it, it would open its bill and utter a [[ZZ or 33?]] call This [[ZZ or 33?]] consisted of a 

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