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[[Underlined]]Saltator[[Underlined]], Apr 12,1960,V [[upper right corner, 33]]

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

[[ mal - from the previous page]]es were frequently widely separated from one another. One bird (the ♀?) uttered single CHN's when separated from its mate. What I presume was another bird (the ♂?) uttered bursts of 2 or 3 notes which appeared to be partial or complete Intros, without any other song elements, in similar circumstances. [[There is a diagram below this as follows: short thick line, underneath CHN; long upsloping line underneath, Seeeeee; short thin line placed lower than first line, underneath "Tub"; or; short thick line, underneath CHN; long upsloping line, underneath Seeeeee]]

When these 2 birds were together one or both of them uttered more "complete" song patterns. An Intro phrase of 3 notes, followed by SHAC, followed by Wbl, [[underlined]] followed by a long descending note[[underlined]]! This might be represented as follows. [[below these words is a diagram showing the following. a thick short line with CHN under it; a long upsloping line with Seeeeee underneath it; a short thin line lower than the first line with "Tub" underneath; two lines twice as long as the first which are shaped like check marks with "Chuck-a SHAC-chuk-a SHAC-;two flat lines the same length with whee Wbl-Whee Wbl-underneath; one long line which goes up slightly, and then down for a ways with whee-ee-oooo underneath.]]

These songs were repeated quite frequently. Eventually similar in form every time. Apparently always ending with a long descending note. Again I couldn't see these birds very well-so I couldn't tell what exactly was provoking these performances. Some of them may have been "greetings". Some were certainly hostile and provoked by our behavior. Every time I made a vigorous movement one or both of the birds responded by uttering one or more of these songs.
I have no idea if the terminal descending notes of these songs were an individual peculiarity or not.
I should mention, before I forget that the only part of any of these song patterns which is really very reminiscent of the typical