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Others ranging 2 - 8 ft up. Group very coherent. Going down hill. Following exactly same path as first group seen here earlier. But advancing on a very broad front. No regular leadership. Synallaxis, Flycatchers, Plush - capped Finches, Yellowfaces probably all slightly ahead of the others at different times. Spectacled Atlapetes never seen to be ahead. Incidentally, today there is no sign of a particularly close association between the Synallaxis and the Spectacled Atlapetes.

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As this flock moves by, the "resident" [[underlined]] [[2 green checkmarks]] [[purple]] 11 [[/purple]] B. nigrocristatus [[/underlined]] appear, [[underlined]] again, same place as before. [[/underlined]] Again utter lots of SHN's, R's, and flourishes. And again fall silent, go back down into scrub, after the flock has passed on.

The Plush-capped Finches with this flock showed the usual tendency to stick to bamboo. Other species passed thru both bamboo and "non-bamboo", showing no obvious preference for either.

[[underlined]] This is as clear a case of two quite different flocks with overlapping territories as I have ever seen. [[/underlined]]

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Rain stops ca. 8:30. Going further along path 8:45 am

8:55am. Area similar environment. See group 3 [[three green checkmarks]] [[in purple]] 1 [[/in purple]] Yellowfaces, 1 [[green checkmark]] [[in purple]] 2 [[/in purple]] Yellowbelly, 1 [[green checkmark]] [[in purple]] 3 [[/in purple]] Sooty Thrush ranging 30 - 40 ft up in trees. Silent. Yellowbelly flies away. Other birds do not follow.

Then hear Ruddy Flycatchers ca 100 ft away.

Then Yellowfaces sing. NODWA

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Then suddenly I am surrounded by birds! A large mixed flock! Includes at least the 3 Yellowfaces, 2 [[green checkmark]] Yellowbellies (the bird that flew away seems to have come back), 2 [[two green checkmarks]] [[in purple]] 4 [[/in purple]] GT's, 2 [[two green checkmarks]] [[in purple]] 5 [[/in purple]] PL Atlapetes, 2 [[two green checkmarks]] [[in purple]] 6 [[/in purple]] Little Striped Flycatchers, 2 [[two green checkmarks]] [[in purple]] 7 [[/in purple]] Ruddy Flycatchers, a variety [[three green checkmarks]] [[in purple]] 8 9 [[/in purple]] of tree creepers (including large one with conspicuous white throat). Sooty Thrush seems