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Ramphocelus,   Mar. 17, 1962, II          123

back and forth around feeding female. He is in extreme Back R, with extreme wing-droop. Uttering lots of soft accelerated ΦR's. Female ignoring him. I notice that male has fairly general erection of head feathers, chin feathers raised particularly conspicuously. Chin looks very swollen. Almost Thflff!! Aside from these components, the males postures unritualized. Back R etc. superimposed upon all sorts of unritualized sitting & pre-flight postures.
  
Then another male appears, lands near female!!! First male retreats a little. Second male first facing female, facing away from first male. Second male in extreme Back R with extreme wing-droop, general erection of head feathers.  And with tail spread to fullest extent and slightly raised!! Very conspicuous. Couldn't get good view of posture, but I don't think head was pointed downward as in low postures of disputing males I saw a week or so ago. Then second male lowers tail a little, hops away from female, sits in posture comme ca for a few seconds.

[[image]] Tail still spread
Semi-H
Tail lowered more (again) after a few seconds in this posture.   

Then second male flies away. First male and female also fly, probably in different directions.
  
I think the second male was silent throughout the whole performance.


      

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[[image: sketch of bird]]