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erciliary seen earlier), low in scrub. 1 [[underlined]] ^[[checkmark and encircled 2 above]] cyanocephala [[/underlined]] and 1 [[underlined]] ^[[checkmark and encircled 3 above]] Myiarchus [[/underlined]] and 1 [[underlined]] ^[[checkmark and encircled 4 above]] CX [[/underlined]], all in trees. 1 Sooty Thrush ^[[checkmark and encircled 5]] j [[right pointing arrow]] group. 1 Pect ^[[checkmark and encircled 6]] flies [[underline]] out [[/underline]] of bush when Synallaxis flies in. Probably there are still other species in scrub.

[[underline]] This group probably is combination of 2 groups seen earlier. [[/underline]]

Synallaxis are noisy. Other species quiet. Synallaxis apparently in lead!

9:33. Almost down to road again. See single ^[[checkmark]] PL Atlapetes. Silent. 3 ft up scrub edge stream. Apparently alone.

[[underline, with 2nd underline beneath non-]] The PL's here really are remarkably non-gregarious! [[/underline]]

COMMENT: The fact that such a high [[underline]] proportion [[/underline]] of the birds here occur in mixed flocks is largely due to the [[underline]] absence [[/underline]] of other species! (I.E. species of drier and/or more open habitats, e.g. [[underline]] A. rufinucha [[/underline]], [[underline]] B. nigrocristatus [[/underline]], Firebelly, [[underline]] carbonaria [[/underline]] s.l. which are of variable gregariousness in other parts of the Andes.)  In this respect, this area differs from the area below San Juan in Central Ecuador (where the variable species [[underline]] were [[/underline]] present and partly gregarious).

^[[left margin-underlined and in red]] Carbonaria [[/left in red]]

9:54. Down by road, see single ^[[checkmark]] Whitestart in tangle edge ravine. Silent. Definitely alone

10:02  See a pair of CXIV ^[[two checkmarks]] feeding in second growth tree 6 - 20 ft. up.  Silent. Definitely alone. [[underline]] I am sure that these are the birds I saw with the large mixed flock on May 21 and which I confused with CC's! [[/underline]]

10:32.  A little further up road.  See single Ruddy ^[[checkmark]] Flycatcher. Uttering R's.  Flycatching 2 - 6 ft up very poor second growth scrub.