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[[underline]] Saltator, [[/underline]] Mar. 28, 1961, II  [[circled]] 44 [[/circled]]
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The whole performance was quite remarkably reminiscent of the "Keeyoo" song of the Sangre de Toro and the "Whew" singing of Buff-throated Saltators.
The fact that all these performances are essentially "dawn songs"  would suggest that they are all high intensity.
I heard a number of "songs" uttered by solitary  Buff-throats at various times this morning. All well after daylight (long after the "Kew" song of the Streaked  described above. All these songs were largely or completely Wbl's. Some might be transcribed as "Jut tsa whee whee." Others might be transcribed as "Tsit tsa-ha-whee" All rather twittering. Uttered from apparently unritualized uttering postures.
Sometimes, I think, there were 2 "Tsit" Notes at the beginning of these Wbl's. The single "Tsit" Notes ( and possibly the double "Tsit's") at the beginning of these Wbl's were quite sharp and thin and rather plaintive. Rising in tone [[diagonal line]] Such notes may be more or less closely related to the "Wheet" Notes I have heard uttered by Buff-throats before, apart from Wbl's-see, for instance, my notes of April 28, 1958, p. 12. I saw one bird sitting by itself in the top of a tall tree this morning which uttered lots of single "Tsit"s without Wbl's. These "Tsit"s may be largely or completely homologous with the SN's of Palm and Blue Tanagers and the PCN's of Sangre de Toros. (I doubt if either the "Tsit"'s and/or "Wheet"s are alarm notes) I think that the "Tsit"s which were associated with or in the Wbl's of the Buff-throats this morning may not have been "integral" parts of the Wbl's (in the same sense as the succeeding 3-note phrases or 3-syllable notes)
It is obvious that the "Rattle-preps" of Buff-throat described

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many of the sounds were changed from Jut to Tsit. The correct transcription should be either Tsit or Fit I believe. I am fairly certain it is Tsit as in another part of this journal the abbreviation TSN is used to describe a song beginning with the Tsit sound. I believe TSN stands for (TSit Note). Unfortunately I do not have the page reference for this, and on that page the abbreviation wasn't broken down.