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(?) major,(underlined) Apr.3, 1960, II   17

tly perfectly comfortable!
  They have definitely pre-flight (?) I have noticed their best when they are running after me,but they also occur just before a standing bird flies up. The carpal joints are held away from the body, and wings are drooped slightly.
  Their initial response upon landing is almost always ruffling of the whole plumage. This is obviously in preparation for a general shake. Sometimes the shake follows immediately, just as soon as the ruffling has occurred. At other times, the shake is delayed a few seconds, and the bird just stands with its plumage ruffled for several seconds.
  As noted above (Mar.2, 1960, p.8) both birds have performed a "Crouch" pattern when alarmed ever since they were able to run. Until I left on Mar. 18, this "Crouch" appeared to be perfectly unritualized. A frightened bird just sat down on its tarsi, and remained sitting motionless until the alarm was over. The body was kept horizontal,and the neck was stretched upward, while the bird usually looked fixedly in the direction of the source of the alarm. Hrr was always much more timid than M, and tended to "Crouch" much more frequently. Last night I let the birds run loose in the animal house,and Hrr was occasionally alarmed by certain unaccustomed sounds (M didn't appear to be frightened of anything). At this time, I noticed that Hrr's Crouch pattern was more specialized than before. It is now a "Tail
up Crouch" ("TUC"). This differs from the previous Crouch pattern in that the whole rear part of the body is definitely tilted diagonally upward.  The wings being carried upward because they rest on the back, (?) end of being drooped in a pre-flight (?) This is the only type of Crouch pattern that Hrr performed yesterday.

           [image of bird here]