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[[Underlined]]Saltator[[Underlined]], Apr 12,1960,IV [[upper right corner, 32]]

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

warbling phrase occurred after the Intro. This might be transcribed by something like "Fee-tee tee tee tee-yoo" [[four lines are written underneath with the fifth slightly lowered and angled down.]]
No other cases, the Intro was followed by a few SHAC Notes and then the warbling phrase as above. (I shall abbreviate the warbling phrase as "Wbl".) Both types of songs, those with both SHAC + Wbl and those with Wbl but without SHAC, usually ended with another Intro, just like the preliminary one. Thus a song phrase with Wbl alone might be represented by the following diagram.

[[ there is a short line, followed by a long upsloping line, a line slightly lower than the first, and another lower then both, four lines at the same height as the first the fifth slightly below the four and at a slight downward angle, a line exactly like the first, a long upsloping line a short line at the same height as the third line, and a line slightly lower, the same height as the fourth line. under each respective line are the following "words" CHN, Seeee, "Ta-tub", Wbl, CHN, Seeeee, "Ta-tub".

I only caught one glimpse of the bird while it was uttering there songs. It appeared to be uttering alone, probably in the same posture as drawn above on p. 30.
I think that these songs must have been less strongly hostile than the songs with SHAC but no Wbl during the preceding dispute. It also seems likely that the songs with both SHAC and Wbl are more strongly hostile and/or more aggressive than the songs with Wbl but no SHAC.
Some of these songs after the dispute may have been "triumph" songs-what ever that may mean.
Later on we came across another pair. Obviously disturbed by our presence, but reluctant to leave the neighborhood. Presumably strongly territorial. One or both birds kept flying away, and then returning to the same tree near us. They may have had a nest there.  In any case, as a result of all this flying back&forth, the mat