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a [[2 green checkmarks]] pair of [[underlined]] Sooty Thrushes [[/underlined]] in a nearby bush in pasture, and a pair of [[2 green checkmarks]] Whitebearded Flycatchers in [[underlined]] another  [[/underlined]] nearby bush in pasture. Both [[underlined]] Poecilothraupis [[/underlined]]

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noisy. Cy Sings typical Song phrases. Whitebeards noisy. Group disperses as soon as I arrive. Lost to sight.

Leaving 10:48 a.m.

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See a mixed flock on my way back to Papayan. Area of low and obviously very young, but quite dense, second growth just above
[[left margin in green]] 127 [[/left margin]] Purace! 11:00 a.m. 2720 m. 8880 ft. Group includes at least [[2 green checkmarks]] [[purple]] 1 [[/purple]] 2 [[underlined]] Atlapetes rufinucha [[/underlined]], 
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[[2 green checkmarks]] [[purple]] 2 [[/purple]] a couple of Synallaxis (generally grey, with rufous wings and cap),

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[[2 green checkmarks]] [[purple]] 3 [[/purple]] several fly catchers (some or all apparently Peewees – certainly 

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not the species associated with flocks at higher altitudes), [[underlined]] and one Ater.[[/underlined]]

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Probably others. Synallaxis and [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]] very low. 3" to 2' above ground. Flycatchers and Ater slightly higher, 2 – 4 ft above ground. All fairly quiet – except for something (juv. [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]]?) uttering Begging type "Zhee" Notes. Impossible to determine who was following whom.

I didn't get a good view of the wings of these [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]]. But I shouldn't be surprised if it was the same subspecies seen elsewhere in Western and Central Cordilleras.

Incidentally, Colombian [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]] seem to be birds of lower altitudes, on the average, than Ecuadorian members of the same species. Why? Do Ecuadorian [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]] take the place of PL Atlapetes in many other parts of the Andes. (NOTE: the Ecuadorian form which seems to be most closely related to the PL, i.e. [[underlined]] leucopterus [[/underlined]], seems to be a lower altitude bird than the Ecuadorian [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]].)

Why don't PL's occur here??? Is their place taken by the Black and Whites??? I rather think so.