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Martin
Blue Tanager

Panamá, Chiriqui region
26 March, 1962:

(On Lewis's property, below Cerro Punta): 
0650 - copulation - no dispaly [[display]] immed before (that I saw) - the mounted bird fluttered its wings high over its back, apparently for balance, the other merely crouched (wings slightly drooped ?).

Hopped off, stretched head and neck up, then bill down to feed (a berry to) the bird it had just mounted - this one remained crouched, without display. Then the bird which had mounted dropped down lower into the tree, and I lost sight of it. 

The presumed female sat still for about 30 sec., then began feeding; giving more-or-less a "seeseeseesitseeseesit..." song, softly. Several times.