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If, on the other hand, mixed flocks are usual here, it must be due to something like the direct or indirect effects of lower altitude (improved climate, etc.). There certainly are no more species of any groups here than near Quito or Tarwa-Palea. 

Going to work in same general region this afternoon. Arrive area where mixed flock was seen in morning 4:30 p.m. Windy & cloudy. No birds visible. 

^[[right margin, red pencil]] Brun

See a single Brun alone 4:41 pm. 

4:55. See a single [[underline]] cyanocephala [[/underline]] alone. Probably same individual seen this morning. Uttering "Seeeet" notes. Flies away. 

5:12. What seems to be unmistakably an Orange billed Saltator flies by silent and alone. 

Incidentally, the altitude of this place [[underline]] now [[/underline]], according to my altimeter is 8075 ft. As the altimeter in the same place read 7650 this morning, something queer must be going on! (I think the area may be around 7800 ft).

^[[margin, red]] Brun [[/margin] Then see another single Brun (or the same Brun again) alone. 

^[[margin, red]] Brun [[/margin]] Then see a pair of Bruns flying about together. One utters [[circled]] R-twitter [[/circled]] when they land together.

^[[margin, red]] Brun [[/margin]] A few minutes later, see a single Brun alone.

5:54. Definitely see Orange-billed Saltator in scrub. Silent and apparently alone.

Then see a single thrush alone. Apparently same big species as this morning.

A few raindrops 5:50. Starting back to town.

NOTE: It seems obvious that mixed flocks are not usual here, at least in the absence of [[underline]] bonariensis [[/underline]].

Just as I am about to leave, a flock of at least 6 (probably more)