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[[underline]]Saltator,[[underline]]Apr.28,1960,II [[ circled]]36[[circled]]

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

as as follows: TSN-CHN-pause-TSN-CHN-pause-TSN-CHN-pause, etc. etc. etc.
I should not be surprised if the original form of "song" in the Saltator-Green-backed Sparrow group was a " warble".  This "warble" may well have been largely or completely replaced, in the course of evolution by louder but simpler patterns based on alternate [[image diagonal line up to right then underline]]notes.

[[underline]] Saltator, [[underline]] I. May 6, 1960 Barro Colorado

[[Hatch marks indicating the following species are along the left side. Red hatch marks=Buff-throated (maximus) see Transcription pg46/pg1 May 16 1958

I have had a "pair" of Buff. throats in an outside cage for a long time.  One unbanded, the other banded yellow.  They have not been very active-until today
Early this morning, I noticed that the yellow bird, presumably,[[♂]], was sitting on a perch, uttering lots of distinctive notes.  These notes were sometimes unitary, and at other times [[facutly?]]bisyllabic or trisyllabic ( more often trisyllabic than bisyllabic).  A typical series might be transcribed by something like "Whew Whee-ee-oo Whew Whee ee-oo Whew Whee-ee-oo Whew Whew Whee-ee-oo Whew Whee ee-oo Whew Whee-oo........." He opened ([[underline]]very[[underline]] slightly)and closed with each note of such a series.  During each series the bird sat in an apparently unritualized diagonal-upright sitting posture, with wings usually or always meeting over the rump, and the tail held in line with the body ([[underline]]not [[underline]]bent more strongly downward).  When this yellow bird uttered such series, it was usually or always sitting on a perch some distance from the other, unbanded, bird in the cage. As far as I could tell, the unbanded bird did not respond to yellow's perform

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