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Aramides cajauea, Aug. 23, 1960, II.  

chirps, but beginning to sound like the "squawk"s of adults. The birds uttered a whole series of these chirps while held in the hand. Then gradually declined or changed into "cluck"s, quite like the "cluck"s of adults.

Then the bird was let loose in a cage by itself. Ran around quite silently. Then it was put in the isolation box. It stayed in the box for a least 1/2 a minute, but remained quite silent. Then flew out silently.

Then I drove it into a corner, where it ran madly back & forth, obviously trying to escape. Uttered squawk-like chirps when I put my hand down near it. Then uttered more squawk-like chirps, accompanied by more escape movements, when poked. Again.

WH
No crouch when approached.

No sound when handled.

Let loose in cage by itself. Ran around quite silently. Then I started to approach it, and ran away from me again & again. Each time uttered P's, AlP's, & squawk-like chirps. Also uttered some RP and trills (and some sounds which appeared to be almost exactly intermediate between trills and AlP's- i.e. trills with the "urgent" tonal quality of AlP's).

Then put in isolation box. Stayed in for a minute or so. Quite silent hroughout. Then flew out silently.

WB
No crouch when approached.

Uttered chirps (not nearly as squawk-like as those of the other birds when handled.

Then let loose in cage by itself. Walked back and forth in corner, uttering quite adult-sounding clucks!

(It is fairly obvious that these clucks are lower intensity than chirps