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Aramides cajauea, July 12, 1960, III    

quite still, and quite silently for several seconds, only performing repeated ck Movements! Another indication that the ck is an alarm pattern.

I noticed a few more details of the actual form of the ck. It is completely vertical (?) U-D TF. Some what complicated, however, by the fact that the tail is partly raised before and between the TF's. In other words, the tail is first raised to a position comme ca. and then (after a variable pause) the U-D movement is superimposed  upon this initial raising (This initial raising may be nothing more than an intention movement of the U-D TF.)

Then the bird ran away from me. Uttering a few soft, not very rapid or short peeps. The general effect of these peeps was rather different from that of RP I have heard on  previous days, but I suppose that they must have been some variation of RP (possibly low intensity?)Then the bird stopped. I approached the bird a little more closely, and it ran away again. This time it ran off with more of the same type of soft peeps, plus AlP's & chirps.

The bird would not follow me at all.

I tried approaching it again & again. Rather to my surprise, it also seemed to be somewhat reluctant to run away from me. Tended (?) to assume an SC posture instead. All these SC's were silent. I finally persuaded it to do a little more running away by giving it soft pats on the derriere. It would stand in a silent SC, then, when I patted it, it would first utter a single chirp in AlP, and then run away a few feet, uttering the same soft and not very extreme type of RP described above. Then it would stop, in a silent SC posture. Then I would have to pat it again, and the whole process would be repeated again & again.