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[[Align right]] February 5. 1964
Below Palea [[/Align right]]

Going to try to go up to A Pect area this morning. Arrive base of road 5:00 a.m. Not raining (yet) but there seem to be a lot of low clouds about.
Lose my pencils on the climb - so the following is [[part hoc.?]].
Arrive first patch humid scrub just below A Pect area 5:55.
SEE TODAY'S NOTES ON MIXED DIGLOSSINI.
The results of today's observations on mixed [[flocks?]] can be summarized as follows:
No Whitertarts were seen. They really do seem to be quite absent from this area.
Thlypopsis also seem to be absent at these altitudes
Ditto Barileuterus. Why?
There are lots of fly catchers and [[furnariids?]] around here, but they do not seem to associate in or with flocles.
I [[underlined]]heard[[/underlined]] something utter double whistles this morning. These sounded similar to, but not identical with, the "song" of [[underlined]]Dubuna [[?]][[/underlined]] near Quito
I also heard various sounds which were reminiscent of House Wrens; but they were, I think uttered by (a) different species.
[[marginalia in red]]Pect[[[/marginalia in red]] I saw a single Pect alone at least 6 times, a single Cy alone 
[[marginalia in red]]Cy[[/marginalia in red]] once (and I am sure that it was eventually alone all morning), and 
[[marginalia in red]]Brun[[/marginalia in red]] single and pairs of Bruns alone many times (at least 10 or 12 times).
I saw a single Firebelly [[checkmark above]] alone once. (I cannot be certain that there is more than one pair of Firebellies in this area; but I think that there are at least 2 pairs. In any case, it is obvious that Firebelli