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May 31, 1960
Cerro Pichincha

[[underlined]] Diglossopis, [[/underlined]] I

[[black marking]]
We finally found where the Blue Diglossopis is fair common – and where the birds we saw on May 27 almost certainly came from.  About 500 to 1000 ft below the path here where we have been studying other species there is a fairly large stream, or a ravine, with very thick vegetation, along the banks of the stream.  (This is the western, or wet, side of Pichincha.)  There are also cultivated fields, with hedges, on either side of the stream & ravine.  (This is very close to the town of Nona).  We have seen Blue Diglossopis in both the vegetation of the ravine and in the hedges.

We saw a fight between 2 birds in a hedge this morning.  Vigorous and frequent supplanting attacks.  Both birds were apparently [[male symbol]]'s.  One of them may have had a [[female symbol]] along with him;  but, if so, she didn't get involved in the fight – and I never managed to get a good view of her.)

Both [[male symbol]]'s sang almost constantly during this dispute.  Their songs were either similar to, or identical with, the songs of this species we have heard before.  Most (perhaps all?) of the postures accompanying songs were relatively low-stretched forward & slightly diagonally upward, comme ça:
[[image:  drawing of bird annotated "Head very flat on top]]

During the intervals between supplanting attacks, the 2 [[male symbol]]'s sometimes sang while sitting only a few feet apart.  But I did not see any
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