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Ramphocelus, I   
                               
March 17, 1958
Frijoles

Watching a Sangre de Toro (male?) in the top of a bare tree here. Sitting alone, uttering a fairly constant stream of "Wheet"Notes (which might be better transcribed, perhaps, as "Sseet"), with definite intervals between each note. Each "Weet" was also answered, immediately, by a single ordinary nasal CN from somewhere down in the shrubbery below-presumably b the mate of the bird uttering the "Wheeet"s. What (?) would call responsive singing.

This afternoon, near K-6, I saw a Sangre de Torofeeding very low in the forest shrubbery, no more than a foot off the ground, rather like an ant tanager.


Ramphocelus, I               

March 18, 1958
Barro Colorado

A wild female Sangre de Toro came to visit the captive birds this morning, provoking lots of excitement. The 2 captives flew round & round the cage, uttering all sorts of ordinary CN's and MCN's (which I think I shall call HAC from now on). All this stuff directed toward the visitor was given without ritualized postures or movements, except for the usual Flicking(?) and flight int. mov. posture. But there was one brief despite between the members of the captive "pair" - possibly seduction- (?) which was accompanied by a trace of