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Three[[?]] Firebellies ^[[2 black check marks above]] quite alone at first. Then a single Brun ^[[1 black check mark above]] appears. Flits from bush to bush and tree to tree, in general neighborhood of the Firebellies, without, however, coming closer than 15 - 20 ft. of them.

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This Brun sings repeatedly. From all sorts of perches. Especially small bushes, usually on edge grassy patches. (This is really [[underlined] very [[/underlined]] scattered scrub-patches of grass all over the place.) Songs are generally [[underlined]]very[[/underlined] twittery-just like songs of Brunes[[?]] I have heard elsewhere. Quite [[underlined]different[[/underlined]] from songs of Carlios in La Paz.

This Brun is singing enough to suggest that it may be breeding.

Brun also feeds on more or less tubular re flowers (of a species I haven't seen before).

It seems to have a very large territory, well over 100 yds in one direction.

As far as I can tell, it is pure Brun. No trace of Carbo characters.

Go on further down to 9600 - 9550 ft area. This is where I say the [[underlined]]Th. cyauocephala[[?]][[/underlined]] the other day. Area is in the sun now, 8:05. (First sunny area we have been in today.

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8:10 Find another Brun ^[[1 black check mark above]] singing steadily on top of 25 ft tree. Phrase after phrase. [[underlined]]All[[/underlined]] twitters. Tree in in middle of thick but low and obviously impoverished second growth scrub. (There are a number of farm houses near here, perhaps a village.)

Further on, come across a pair ^[[2 black check marks above]] of Whitestarts. Same species. One of them uttering Myst-like songs. In Eucalyptus trees.

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It is interesting that the Brun songs here are twitters, even though the birds are singing a lot. I. E. even the high intensity (although not necessarily the highest possible intensity) songs of this form are not slowed do