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[[circled]] 5 [[/circled]]

[[margin note in red]] Laf Ruf [[/margin note in red]]
[[margin notes in green]] 32 33 3?
[[number in red]]5[[/number in red] [[2 check marks in green]] a pair of Lafs; [[number in red]]6[[/number in red] [[1 check mark in green]] 1 or2 Rufs (if 2, they were a pair); [[number in red]]7[[/number in red] [[1 check mark in green]] and one wren.  The flock also included at least [[number in red]]8[[/number in red] [[1 check mark in green]]1 blue and yellow bird which was probably a Duburia.  Probably also included [[number in red]]9[[/number in red] [[2 check marks in green]] a pair of PL Atlapetes.

This flock was moving up hill, along both sides of the automobile road.  Finches and tanager apparently leading.  As far as I could tell, the presumed Duburia, the Atlapetes XIV, the Fire-bellies, the Blue & Orange TAnager XVI, (and the PL Atlapetes, if present) were in the vanguard, apparently leap-frogging over one another at random  Also flying back & forth across road. The presumed Atlapetes, no. XV, were definitely behind the vanguard most of the time. [[margin notes in red]] Laf Ruf  Ruf [[/margin notes in red]]  The Lafs were around the XV's and/or the Rufs most of the time.  They certainly stayed with the flock for at least several minutes.  The Rufs were always at the rear.  They definitely stayed with the flock as long as I could see it.

All the members of the vanguard moved consistently in the same direction.  And the other members of the flock were definitely following at all times.  This was a [[underlined]] very [[/underlined]] well integrated flock.

The vegetation through which the flock was moving was alpine scrub.  Very thick.  Several hundred feet below the nearest edge of Paramo.  Scrub possibly a little drier than higher scrub.  Contained few or no tubular flowers. All the members of the flock seemed to be feeding on insects.  [[underlined]] Not [[/underlined]] fly catching.  Picking insects off leaves, probing crevices, etc.

The Firebellies, the XVI's, and the presumed Duburia type ranged from the tops of small trees (possibly 20 ft. above ground)