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[[underlined]] Diglossa [[/underlined]], Mar. 6, 1959, II.  [[circled]] 5 [[/circled]]

this preening than when be when he singing in the intervals of feeding - although he did utter some phrases of all types during preening. In general, it is my opinion that the song of this species may be less intimately connected with preening than is the song of [[underlined]] Coereba [[/underlined]].

(The term "preening" in the above paragraph is used in a rather broad sense, to include some other comfort movements in addition to preening s.s. It was almost always introduced by a few B.W. movements - not surprising as the bird had just been feeding. And the actual preening s.s. was occasionally interrupted by scratching.)

It is obvious that the [[male symbol]]'s  and [[female symbol]]'s of this species maintain separate territories (or, at least, remain in separate areas - as I have seen little or nothing in the way of real territorial defense.) I have only once seen a [[female symbol]] in the garden where the [[male symbol]] whose behavior I have been watching usually hangs out, and this occurred when the [[male symbol]] himself was absent. Later on this morning, I spent a good deal of time watching a [[female symbol]] and her area was only visited once, very briefly, by a [[male symbol]] (I think that the [[male symbol]] and [[female symbol]] fought at this time). A second [[female symbol]] also visited this area once very briefly, but only when the first [[female symbol]] was absent.

The [[female symbol]] I watched was engaged in nest-building. She had the nest almost or completely finished (with at least some of the lining in)

A large proportion of both the [[male symbol]]'s and [[female symbol]]'s of this form I have seen, both this year & last, have white feathers in the crown. Variable in extent, forming a patch of extremely variable shape & area.

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