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Diglossini

April 17, 1972
Cerro Punta

11:30 am Road to Las Nubes. Looking for [[underlined]] Diglossa "plumbea" [[/underlined]] ("Plumb")

Area much cut over. Some second growth. Cloudy. Warm. Zonotrichias singing. Otherwise very quiet. 

Hear Whitestart Song. No other birds Singing.

Yellow-thighs around. Apparently alone. Then see Silver-throats and BCBT's further on. Scattered scrub in pasture. Presumably mixed flock.

12:20. Some distance further on. See mixed flock; Yellow-thighs, BCBT's, Yellow-throated Atlapetes, etc. Dense second growth scrub near pasture

See Whitestart in tree in pasture. Slate-throat. Sings a few phrases NODWA. Then sings more phrases in scrub. NODWA

Farther on, more Slate-throats. Singing NODWA. But some apparent overlap with Zonotrichia.

Stopping 12:55 pm.

April 18, 1972
Cerro Punta

Going to work in and around town today. Arrive 6:30 a.m. Mixed sun and light drizzle.

6:42 a.m. See single [[female symbol]] Plumb. Flitting about in rather isolated trees and bushes edge small pastures,

Transcription Notes:
Atlapetes = bird genus