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Aramides cajauea, July 5, 1960, II'

LC notes. Possibly produced by more or less intermediate motivation.  Thwarting of some gregarious motivation - without hostility.

Ck's occur quite frequently now, in some circumstances, but are certainly by no means continuous. While I watched this morning, WR did a lot of ck-ing when just walking around the cage, and WH performed a number of ck movements while sitting (underlined) down.  I thought that the ck movements might be an indication of "nervousness" of some sore (alarm?), but this interpretation is (?) and quite probably dubious. In any case, the birds frequently walk and (?)A around without the slightest trace of ck movements.

I started to run a series of tests this morning.

WH. Uttered chirps when handled. Silent when first isolated, and then began to utter LC notes of the usual sort. Uttered a series of rather varied and variable peeps( see descriptions below, p. 21) as greeting. Also performed a couple of Tsh's, and 1 burst of tail-wagging ("TW"). These latter movements may have been "antochttiouous" (?) as the bird immediately began to preen vigorously when I walked away.

While the bird remained isolated (in a box), I returned to talk to it several times. Almost every time I talked to it, the bird lowered its head, and assumed a "semi-crouch" posture comme ca

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(I shall call this "SC").

Down medium dark brown now. Eyes black. Legs & bill blackish (tip of bill light). Newly exposed tips of wing & tail feathers rufous.