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[[circled]] 44 [[/circled]]

[[underlined]] Also [[/underlined]] a light post ocular stripe. This bird also "mobs" me. Its noises
[[margin, in red]] Laf [[/margin]]
attract a singel Laf [[check mark]] [[blue check mark]] [[insert,circled]] 7 [[/insert]], which flies into adjacent bush. Silent. Laf flies on almost immediately. Then Synallaxis gradually moves off. 

I imagine that the "real" part of this flock included approximately 8 individuals. 

[[underlined]] Parts [[/underlined]] of this area look very much like the highest area worked on Purace!

4:40 pm. On way back toward road. See single Ruf [[blue check mark]], in thick bush
[[margin, in red]] Ruf [[/margin]]
beside path. Silent. Ranging 6 - 10 ft up. Picking insects off leaves. 
[[margin, in green]] V N HO [[/margin]]
Down in the bottom of [[underlined]] same [[/underlined]] bush, can hear furnariid(s) [[two check marks]] [[two blue check marks]]. Quite noisy. Ruf doesn't appear to be paying any attention to the latter. Then I see a [[insert,circled,in blue]] 41 [[/insert]] [[two blue check marks]] [[two check marks]] pair of PR's, 50 ft away, in region bamboo scrub with scattered AS bushes. PR's ranging 2 - 12 ft up. Sometimes moderately noisy. Usually quiet. 
[[margin, in red]] Ref [[/margin]]
Then the PR's fly quite far away. Into region tall AS. Neither Ruf nor furnariid(s) follow. A few seconds later, hear Whitebeard sounds from area to which PR's flew. 

How much (if any) of this was "real" flocking is very dubious. If all or part of this assemblage was a flock, all or most of it was very diffuse. 

5:01. Region very mixed second growth & Eucalyptus (a species I have never seen before). See pair Whitebeards [[two check marks]] [[two blue check marks]] [[insert,circled,in blue]] 43 [[/insert]] 6 - 15 ft up. Alone. 

Leaving 5:20 pm.

COMMENTS:
I. It is beginning to look as if this series of observations will [[underlined]] confirm both [[/underlined]] my previous impressions of the sociability of the birds here. I.E. mixed flocks are not uncommon, but neither are they nearly as common as in the Western and Central Cordilleras.