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[[margin,in red]] Cy Inter [[/margin]]
Altho the Cy and the Inters were on the same side of the road when the group was divided, they did [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] seem to be associating particularly closely with one another.  Cy eating berries.  Inters taking insects off leaves.
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At one time, there was a single [[green, blue and pencil checkmarks]] [[insert,circled]] 11 [[/insert]] Sooty Thrush right in the middle of the flock.  But it apparently did not stay with group.

[[underlined]] This certainly was another flock reminiscent of the Central and Western Cordilleras!!!  [[/underlined]] Are large coherent flocks found [[underlined]] everywhere, [[/underlined]] throughout the Andes, where there is VSF-type forest at relatively low elevations???

Perhaps flocks are particularly well developed here because this area is particularly close to the border of the Sierra de Merida???

NOTE: the "Gray cap"s are a puzzle.  Obviously [[underlined]] Basileuterus [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] Hemispingus [[/underlined]].  Clear gray (almost blue gray) on crown.  Conspicuous dark streak thru crown.  Otherwise yellow below, yellow-olive above.  I have certainly called such birds [[underlined]] H. superciliaris reyi [[/underlined]] before.  [[underlined]] But are they?  [[/underlined]] They certainly do [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] have any visible white superciliary!!!

Rain starts 3:10 pm. Stops again 3:29.
[[margin,in purple]] II [[/margin]]
3:38 pm. Some considerable distance along road.  8600 ft.  
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See another mixed flock.  In scrub edge obviously mature VSF. Group includes [[three blue, three green, three pencil checkmarks]] [[insert,circled]] 1 [[/insert]] [[underlined]] 3 [[/underlined]] 
[[margin,in red]] Inter [[/margin]]
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Inters, 1 [[green, pencil and blue checkmarks]] [[insert,circled]] 2 [[/insert]] [[underlined]] luteoviridis [[/underlined]] - types (apparently usual species), [[blue, pencil, and green checkmarks]] [[insert,circled]] 3 [[/insert]] 1 PL, 2 [[two blue, two green, two pencil checkmarks]] [[insert,circled]] 4 [[/insert]] White beards.  
[[margin,in blue]] III [[/margin]]
Group [[underlined]] very [[/underlined]] coherent.  All ranging 6" - 3' up!  All uttering CN's, but nothing else.  Whitebeards and Sittis alternating in lead.
[[margin, in red, underlined]] sitticolor [[/margin]]
[[underlined]] Conirostrum sitticolor [[/underlined]] certainly does appear to be [[underlined]] primarily [[/underlined]] a bird of scrub!

Going back along road a few minutes later, I can hear both flocks approximately where I left them.

Then go on to another area 8975 ft. Edge fog level. Arrive 4:15 pm