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Atlapetes, Feb. 5, 1962, III.

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low intensity high bow postures

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One type of low bow posture (unusual)
Head usually nearly horizontal

8:00 a.m.  Green picks up n.m. (straws) and then continues bowing as before in corner!!  Drops it almost immediately, and still continues as before.

8:05.  Green occasionally supplants red.  Red always retreats immediately.  Green stands, bows as usual (still St-like in high posture).  Then goes back to old station and continues as before.

Green picks up n.m., supplants red, continues bowing, with n.m., at site where red was bowing before being supplanted.  Then flies away.  Still carrying n.m.  Circles around red, at distance of 2 or 3 ft, still bowing  carrying n.m.  Then red down to feed.  Green follows.  Then both animals back to old sites.  Behaving as before.  Green has lost n.m. somewhere

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[[image 1: sketch of bird showing low intensity high posture]] [[image 2: sketch of bird in unusual low-bow posture]] [[left margin: lines down page]]