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[[margin in red]] Carbo [[/margin]]
Then another.  Also in low scrub, then flies up into Eucalypt.

These Carbos ignore [[underlined]] Spinus [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Catamenia [[/underlined]] individuals in same scrub.

The whole region around La Paz is certainly much drier, on the average, than the Yungas where we were this morning

[[margin in red]] Carbo [[/margin]]
See one or more of the same Carbos again & again in same areas.  Can't see them feeding.  All apparently single. One Carbo chases a small gray bird, probably of another species, but I couldn't indentify the latter.

There is also one Orange-billed Saltator ([[underlined]] aurantiirostris [[/underlined]]) here, in small trees.  Ignores all other birds, including smaller finches which are sometimes nearby

[[margin in red]] Carbo [[/margin]]
4:30. Watching one of the single Carbos feeding [[underlined]] inside [[/underlined]] very thick scrub.  Usually 1 - 2 ft above ground during this. Probes in or at small dark purple trumpet-shaped flowers, apparently picks insects off blades large leaves, also probably pokes in crevices and leaf bases. Then flies to top 25 ft tree, catches 1 insect by fly catching flight  Then disappears.

Uttered "Tsit"s during feeding, nothing else

[[margin in red]] Carbo [[/margin]]
One Carbo chases another in flight.  Twice.  Silent.

Can hear and Orange bill singing in distance

I think that a species of finch like [[underlined]] Poospiza [[/underlined]] also occurs here  Pairs & single birds.  Usually well hidden in low scrub.

[[margin in red]] Carbo [[/margin]]
Again see a Carbo make a fly catching flight.

May be significant, in this connection, that there are no Whitestarts here (at least now)

Go down to another area, 11,350 ft  Little scrub & nothing to be