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[[underlined]] and demanding food!!! [[/underlined]] Can "brown" be only juvenile form of CXXVII???? Also, group is [[2 checkmarks]] [[insert]] 57 [[/insert]] [[insert,in blue]] 8 [[/insert]] visited by several hummingbirds (species not identified - can't even tell if all the hummers belong to the same species).

Group also includes [[underlined]] 1 squirrel. [[/underlined]] Large. Largely bright rufous all over. Possibly some white on belly.

Group as a whole moderately noisy. Obviously highly integrated. But birds often quite widely dispersed. Can't tell who, if anyone, is leading.

COMMENT: It seems to me that highly integrated flocks here tend to be more widely dispersed, on the average, than comparable flocks in some other parts of the Andes. Is this causally related to the fact that there are comparatively few species here??

NOTE: Forest here is [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] tall. Most trees no more than 20 - 30 ft tall. Due to edaphic factors. (Slope is very steep.)

7:45 am. Go on uphill thru forest. To 7600 ft. Where forest becomes lighter and there is a lot of bamboo. From the sounds I hear, it would appear that the flock is moving parallel to me and still maintaining its cohesion.

Lots of Whitestart CXXVII Songs. All NODWAH 

ADDITION: Now I see that there are at least one pair of each of two different species of creepers more or less associated with this group. Essentially following.

8:10. See a single Trogon. Apparently alone.

Starting back down hill 8:15 am.

10:22 am. Walking along road. 7525 ft. Flush a single [[checkmark]] [[insert]] 15 [[/insert]] Cheek Atlapetes from low fern bamboo scrub on old slide.