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[[underlined]] Diglossa [[/underlined]], Mar. 3, 1959, II.  [[circled]] 4 [[/circled]]

not sure that this "doublet" organization was always present.) The bill opened & closed (but not completely) with each note. Sometimes, I think, the [[male symbol]] gave this song from a completely unritualized sitting posture. Sometimes he did it in the intervals of intensive preening. Then the song was given from the very fluffed posture drawn on the preceding page.

Otherwise his behavior (ie. Flicking & CN's) has been just like last year.

[[underlined]] Diglossa [[/underlined]], I.  March 6, 1959
Cerro Punta.

The same apparently unmated [[male symbol]] was in the garden by the house this morning at dawn. Singing repeatedly. Could check the song very well. The commonest form is "Tsree-tsree tsree-tsree". But this is probably only moderately high intensity. 5-note songs are not uncommon. "Tsree-tsree tsree-tsree tsree" Sometimes the place of the fifth note is taken by a very brief, formless, warble; but this is relatively very rare. More common is the replacement of the 4th note of a 4-note song by [[underlined]] three very brief notes [[/underlined]] "tuh tuh tuh."

The [[male symbol]] did most of this apparently higher intensity type song while he was flitting about from Fuchsia bush to Fuchsia bush, feeding. Every once in a while, he would stop feeding and fly up into a tree. There he would continue to give songs as before - at least for a while. Twice he gradually began to preen after sitting in the tree for a second or so. Once he stopped singing after the preening began. The other time he continued to give song phrases in the intervals of preening. It is my opinion that there were relatively fewer of the higher intensity type song phrases during