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INDEX  Ramphoulus dimidiatus  Thru June 21, 1961

"Pre-Cop" Postures
By males - directed toward females.
Description; St & BL & TU, with wings drooped, 7, 58, 64, 66, 80. Sketches; 7, 21, 64.
Different varieties, low intensity reactions; 81
Descriptions; St & BL & TU, with wing(s) raised; 57, Sketch; 57
"Pre-Cop" postures with WhN's; 7
"Pre-Cop" postures (especially St) hostile?; 21

Copulation Behavior.
Best accounts; 70 et seq, 76 at seg.
General discussion and summary male pre-cop behavior; 75, 76. General discussion BF; 77. General comment, comparative silence during cop attempts; 74. General comment post-cop displays; 74.
  Possible mounting int. Movs. ?; 58.
  Male in "Pre-Cop" without Wars (i.e. in posture approximating female soliciting posture) does not try to mount immediately. 74.
  Male always stretches neck upward just before mounting; 75.
  Lowest intensity forms of "Pre-Cop" Posture by male, 77. Low intensity male pre-cop displays; 75.
  Male mounts after "peering"; 71. Male mounts after pivoting; 71. Male mounts after both "peering" and pivoting; 72. Male does both "peering" and pivoting without subsequent mounting; 72.
  Male in St, BL BF, TU, and more or less Wars, before copulation 72, 73. Sketch St, BL, BF, TU, and Wars; 73.
  Female soliciting Description; 71, 72 73. Sketch 71.
  BW's after copulations; 74. Male in BL and TU after copulations, 72, 74.