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Darnis, Mar. 12, 1961 II  

Others accompanied by Flicking but no other ritualized movements or postures. Still others not accompanied by any ritualized postures or movements.
 
The male uttered long phrases very frequently whenever he came near to the female or the female came near to him. Extremely variable. Probably usually something like "Trit tsit treeewooo tseeewoooo" or "Trit tsit tseewoooo wooooo". The first couple of notes of each phrase probably only little modified CN's (perhaps not modified at all in some cases.) Sometimes a preliminary "Trit" replaced y something more like "Tsee." Sometimes, I think, one or both of the longer notes at the end of a phrase was "tsooweeee" instead of "tseewooo." Some of the "wooo" sounds (including the "wooo"s in "tseewooo"s) were quite harsh and hoarse-sounding. Sometimes the song phrases were uttered singly (?) Sometimes repeated rapidly once or (?) twice. Partial repetitious and incomplete phrases were also common. Most song phrases and partial song phrases "embedded" in a (?) of CN's.

The male appeared to utter these songs when he was Bowing, when he was in an Lt. (?) Posture without Bowing, and when he was not in any ritualized posture. Usually accompanied by Flicking movements, but the male performed Flicking movements almost continuously when he was not singing as well as when he was singing.

As far as I could tell, the female uttered the same variety of long phrases, accompanied by the same variety of postures and movements, as the male during this encounter this morning, but she certainly uttered song patterns much less frequently than the male.

(The B male used to utter song phrases quite frequently while he was by himself alone. But he has not done so for a couple of weeks. I think that the songs he uttered by himself alone were more or less similar to the ones he uttered during the encounter today, but they may not have