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[[Underlined]]Saltator[[Underlined]], May 6,1960,V [[upper right corner, 40]]

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

ew" songs + Wbl's during this encounter would indicate that neither is predominantly hostile.
One or both birds occasionally uttered a single "Wheet" CN during this attacking and escaping. Some of these "Wheet"s were certainly uttered by Yellow; but it is also possible that a few were uttered by Red. I could not determine if these "Wheet"s were hostile or purely "locomotory".
Once (unfortunately when I wasn't looking) one bird uttered a series of 2 or 3 hoarse "Whaul" Notes-obviously HAC or something closely related to it.
After a while, Red obviously became very tired. Yellow also began to pause a little more frequently between attacks. Then Red sat in a "submissive" fuffled posture whenever Yellow wasn't attacking.

[[image-drawing of bird in submissive posture, red arrows point to areas refereed to in the captions.]]

[[captions accompanying image- Submissive Ruffle+G; Back smooth; Notice CR (possibly slightly exaggerated in this drawing); Belly feathers even more strongly ruffled than breast feathers]]

(It is interesting that this species does CR when escape is obviously predominant over attack).
Once, when Yellow approached Red while the latter was sitting in this submissive Ruffled Posture, Red Just G'd instead of retreating. This seemed to be effective as threat as it caused Yellow to retreat himself, temporarily. And from this one encounter, Red kept his bill closed all