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Atlapetes, Feb. 4., 1962, IV.

One of the green & pink pair suddenly picks up large leaf and starts to fly around with it!!! Silent. Then drops leaf 10:45.

Then does it again & again. It is green! Each time eventually flies to perch where red is: Red flies away each time. Then green stands. Usually in more or less extreme St. Still holding nest material in bill. Make occasional very rapid & brief downward bowing movements. Then flies away & drops n.m. All quite silent.

Legs are extended as much as possible in St. (This is probably another difference from the usual high bow posture)

((Correction. Once the n.m. picked up by green was a tuft of dry grass, not a large leaf.)

10:55. Green starts hopping after pink, on grown and in bushes. Very rapid "Greeting" each time green lands. This is beginning to look hostile, purely hostile! Develops into something very like a chase.

Then green hops after red. Green does brief St. each time it lands during this! Pursuit slower than previous pursuit of pink. Silent.

Then green goes back to hopping after pink, with "Greetings"!

Pink has kept CR all the time it has been in this cage.

Green continues assuming St. postures briefly (usually with brief downward bowing movements) while all 3 birds feed on ground. Somewhat difficult to tell just who these are directed to. I rather presume Red. Don't seem to provoke any response 11:07.

Goes back to following pink. Silent. No display. Pink escapes each time green comes close. Rapid flight. After a while pink seems to get tired. Doesn't always flee when green approaches. Then green just stands near pink, making more or less irregular bowing movements, without

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