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ual species), possibly some other birds, in scrub across path.  This probably is all one mixed flock.

Reach crest of ridge again 8:18 am.

Going back down hill 8:55. 8500 ft. See single [[underlined]] B. luteoviridis. [[/underlined]] Down hill. In bamboo. Apparently alone.

I wonder why there are no GT's or Buthraupis around here??

9:40 8400 ft. See large mixed flock Group includes 2 PL's at least, Synallaxis, 2 [[underlined]] B. luteoviridis [[/underlined]] types, at least, "BCBT", 4  or (more probably) 5 Firebellies, 2 or (more probably) 3 Cys, [[underlined]] Plieucticas [[/underlined]] (nc! -- [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] the usual, largely yellow, species -- the rarer, largely black, one) All in USTF.  PL's, [[underlined]] luteoviridis [[/underlined]], and Syuallaxis stuck low in scrub.  All others in scrub and trees, 6 - 20 ft up. Group as a whole fairly noisy.  Obviously highly organized. Firebellies both leaders and passive unclear (when not leading)

[[margin in red]] Also, 1 Blue and Black [[/margin]]
[[margin in red]] Cy [[/margin]]
9:50. Turning corner of patti, come across same flock again. Still includes same birds.  And now I see that it also includes 2 Mututarts, 2 Mututrepes, 1 [[underlined]] Whitebeard [[/underlined]] (definite!), 1 cotuiga CXIX, and 2 small wrens (possibly House Wrens). All these additions are in trees.

Interestingly enough, there are no [[underlined]] Th.  cyanocepliala! [[/underlined]] I have seen [[underlined]] cyanocepliala [[/underlined]] around here before.  So the local birds of this species [[underlined]] probably are with another flock somewhere else now. [[underlined]]

Flock as a whole doesn't seem to be going anywhere in particular very fast.  But all birds are quite close together.

Still no Sittis!
[[margin in red]] Sitti [[/margin]]

10:30 Farther up path. See pair Whitestarts down hill in US