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Aramides cajauea, July 17, 1960 III     

when I put my hand in the box. 

Then I put if on the floor. It followed me immediately! - for a few feet. Uttering RP2. Then stopped. Then(?) XC, quite silently when I approached it! I left it alone for a minute or so, and then tried to approach it again. This time it went into SC and uttered AlP's. I tried to approach it twice more. One it ran away in an SC posture, uttering AlP notes.

When poked, it responded by uttering AlP's, and then fell silent when the poking continued. No trills.

Aramides cajauea, I              
July 30, 1960
Barro Colorado  

I came back from my trip to Washington to find the 4 Woodrails flourishing. Almost completely feathered now - although still much smaller than full grown adults. They were transferred to a medium-sized outdoor cage on July 26th.

We observed their behavior when they were all together in their cage for some time this morning.

As usual, they all uttered lots of PP's when I first came near the cage. Also a lot of slightly harsher notes which appeared to be intermediate between typical PP's and typical AlP's. Slightly harsher than typical PP's - slightly more "urgent sounding." The birds stopped these notes later on when we sat in their cage for a while, when they moved about in the cage and fed in a more or less relaxed "normal" manner. This would indicate that their peeps when I first approached their cage were a definite reaction to me. Possibly