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Atlapetes, I  
October 31, 1962
Boqueron de Tollo 

Heard what were obviously Yellow-throats singing this morning at dawn. No D.C. One bird, probably the bird seen yesterday, repeatedly uttered soft phrases, each of which was more or less comme ça: "Zeeeeeeeeeeeee zee-zee-zee." Other birds were heard to utter phrases which were at least similar. (I couldn't tell if they were identical or not.) The tone and loudness of all these phrases seemed to be identical with the corresponding features of the Yellow-throats in Chiriqui. 
  
Still no sign of the local Yellow-throats associating with mixed flocks.

Atlapetes, I  
April 4, 1963
Near Tarma

This morning, ca. 7:00 a.m., down in the
humid region below Palea, [[green pencil]] 9000 [[/green pencil]], I saw a single Bush-finch, apparently the "PL", A. schistaceus. Very similar to, or identical with, the PL's seen in the northern Andes Rufous crown; black cheeks;l a white moustache; a black stripe below the white moustache; light gray or whitish throat, merging gradually into medium gray of rest of underparts (is this darker than the underparts of PL's in northern Andes???); otherwise slatey or blackish above.
  
This bird was in an area of semi-open scrub, including low bushes, tufts of grass, and trees only a few feet tall.