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[[Underlined]]Saltator[[Underlined]], Apr. 12,1960,III. [[upper right corner, 31]]

[[Hatch marks indicating the following species are along the left side.Green Hatch marks=Black headed (atriceps) see Transcription pg69/pg24 Dec 30 1958]]

Note always marked the end of a song phrase. There was always a pause after these last notes (before the beginning of a new song phrase). All the song phrases during this dispute might be represented by the following diagram. [[image-line sloping upwards, underneath is written "Freeeeeeeeee"; next are five short waving lines underneath each is written, HAC; next is a line sloping upwards, underneath is written "Feeeeeeeeeee".
I shall call these "Feeeeeeeeeee" or "Wheeeeeeeeeet" introductory and terminal notes "Seee" Notes; and the HAC Notes during song phrases "SHAC".
After a few minutes, this dispute apparently died down. I think the intruder(s) must have left. After this, we could no longer see the birds well; but one bird (presumably the ♂ of the victorious pair) uttered song phrase after song phrase, at few sound intervals. These song phrases were rather different from those uttered during the heat of the preceding dispute. They always began with what might be called an "introductory" phrase of 3 or 4 notes. (I shall abbreviate this term to "Intro" throughout the following pages.) Many of these song phrases were preceded by a few single CHN's. The first note of the Intro phrase of the songs was also a CHN, apparently identical with the ordinary single CHN's. This was followed [[underlined]]immediately[[underlined]] by a Seeeeeee Note. quite like the Seeeeeeee Notes during the dispute described above. This in turn was followed immediately by a couple of relatively low-pitched and/or descending notes: "Ta-tuh" __ __ or -- __ This marked the end of the Intro phrase.

What followed next was rather variable.in many cases, a bird